Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Tool manufacture by New Caledonian crows: chipping away at human uniqueness. Acta Zoologica Sinica 52 (Supp), S. 622 - 625 (2006)

Gray, R. D.: Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots. Science 309 (5743), S. 2007 - 2008 (2005)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.: Curious parallels and curious connections: phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics. Systematic Biology 54 (4), S. 513 - 526 (2005)

Kennedy, M.; Holland, B. R.; Gray, R. D.; Spencer, H. G.: Untangling long branches: identifying conflicting phylogenetic signals using spectral analysis, neighbor-net, and consensus networks. Systematic Biology 54 (4), S. 620 - 633 (2005)

Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: Discussion: Three ways to misunderstand developmental systems theory. Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3), S. 417 - 425 (2005)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Nicholls, G.; Welch, D.; Gray, R. D.: From words to dates: water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference? Transactions of the Philological Society 103 (2), S. 193 - 219 (2005)

Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Direct observations of pandanus-tool manufacture and use by a New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides). Animal Cognition 7 (2), S. 114 - 120 (2004)

Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: The crafting of hook tools by wild New Caledonian crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 271, S. S88 - S90 (2004)

Wright, S. D.; Gray, R. D.; Gardner, R. C.: Energy and the rate of evolution: inferences from plant rDNA substitution rates in the western pacific. Evolution 57 (12), S. 2893 - 2898 (2003)

Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature 426 (6965), S. 435 - 439 (2003)

Hurles, M. E.; Matisoo-Smith, E.; Gray, R. D.; Penny, D.: Untangling oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18 (10), S. 531 - 540 (2003)

Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Diversification and cumulative evolution in New Caledonian crow tool manufacture. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 270 (1517), S. 867 - 874 (2003)

Clements, K. D.; Gray, R. D.; Choat, J. H.: Rapid evolutionary divergences in reef fishes of the family Acanthuridae (Perciformes: Teleostei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26 (2), S. 190 - 201 (2003)

Gray, R. D.; Heaney, M.; Fairhall, S.: Evolutionary psychology and the challenge of adaptive explanation. From mating to mentality: evaluating evolutionary psychology, S. 247 - 268 (2003)

Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Species-wide manufacture of stick-type tools by New Caledonian crows. Emu 102 (4), S. 349 - 353 (2002)

Hunt, G. R.; Corballis, M. C.; Gray, R. D.: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows: neural processing and not ecological factors may influence 'handedness' in these birds. Nature 414 (6865), S. 707 - 707 (2001)

Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.; Spencer, H. G.: The phylogenetic relationships of the shags and cormorants: can sequence data resolve a disagreement between behavior and morphology? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 17 (3), S. 345 - 359 (2000)

Paterson, A. M.; Wallis, G. P.; Wallis, L. J.; Gray, R. D.: Seabird and louse coevolution: complex histories revealed by 12S rRNA sequences and reconciliation analyses. Systematic Biology 49 (3), S. 383 - 399 (2000)

Gray, R. D.; Jordan, F. M.: Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature 405 (6790), S. 1052 - 1055 (2000)

Paterson, A. M.; Palma, R. L.; Gray, R. D.: How frequently do avian lice miss the boat?: implications for coevolutionary studies. Systematic Biology 48 (1), S. 214 - 223 (1999)

Walsh, D.; Reeves, R. A.; Saul, D. J.; Gray, R. D.; MacKenzie, L.; Bergquist, P. R.; Bergquist, P. L.: Heterogeneity of SSU and LSU rDNA sequences of Alexandrium species. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 26 (5), S. 495 - 509 (1998)

Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: Replicator II: judgement day. Biology and Philosophy 12 (4), S. 471 - 492 (1997)

Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Habitat choice, habitat matching and the effect of travel distance. Behaviour 134, S. 905 - 920 (1997)

Spalter, R. A.; Walsh, D.; Reeves, R. A.; Saul, D. J.; Gray, R. D.; Bergquist, P. L.; MacKenzie, L.; Bergquist, P. R.: Sequence heterogeneity of the ribosomal RNA intergenic region Alexandrium species. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 25 (3), S. 231 - 239 (1997)

Spencer, H. G.; Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Perceptual constraints on optimal foraging: the effects of variation among foragers. Evolutionary Ecology 10 (4), S. 331 - 339 (1996)

Tyrrell, J. V.; Bergquist, P. R.; Gray, R. D.; MacKenzie, L.; Bergquist, P. L.: Phylogeny of the raphidophytes Heterosigma carterae and Chattonella antiqua using 'V4' domain SSU rDNA sequences. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 24 (3), S. 221 - 235 (1996)

Kennedy, M.; Spencer, H. G.; Gray, R. D.: Hop, step and gape: do the social displays of the Pelecaniformes reflect phylogeny? Animal Behaviour 51, S. 273 - 291 (1996)

Spencer, H. G.; Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: An observation of aggressive nest defence in the Pitt island shag (Stictocarbo featherstoni). Notornis 43 (4), S. 208 - 210 (1996)

Paterson, A. M.; Wallis, G. P.; Gray, R. D.: Penguins, petrels, and parsimony: does cladistic analysis of behavior reflect seabird phylogeny? Evolution 49 (5), S. 974 - 989 (1995)

Spencer, H. G.; Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Patch choice with competitive asymmetries and perceptual limits: the importance of history. Animal Behaviour 50, S. 497 - 508 (1995)

Paterson, A. M.; Gray, R. D.; Wallis, G. P.: Of lice and men: the return of the ’comparative parasitology‘ debate. Parasitology Today 11 (4), S. 158 - 160 (1995)

Kennedy, M.; Shave, C. R.; Spencer, H. G.; Gray, R. D.: Quantifying the effect of predation risk on foraging bullies: no need to assume an IFD. Ecology 75 (8), S. 2220 - 2226 (1994)

Gray, R. D.; Kennedy, M.: Misconceptions or misreadings?: missing the real issues about the IFD. Oikos 71 (1), S. 167 - 170 (1994)

Gray, R. D.: Sparrows, matching and the ideal free distribution: can biological and psychological approaches be synthesized? Animal Behaviour 48 (2), S. 411 - 423 (1994)

Gray, R. D.; Kennedy, M.: Perceptual constraints on optimal foraging: a reason for departures from the ideal free distribution? Animal Behaviour 47 (2), S. 469 - 471 (1994)

Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Agonistic interactions and the distribution of foraging organisms: individual costs and social information. Ethology 96 (2), S. 155 - 165 (1994)

Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: Developmental systems and evolutionary explanation. The Journal of Philosophy 91 (6), S. 277 - 304 (1994)

Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Can ecological theory predict the distribution of foraging animals?: a critical analysis of experiments on the ideal free distribution. Oikos 68 (1), S. 158 - 166 (1993)

Kennedy, M.; Spencer, H. G.; Gray, R. D.: A yellow-footed pink-footed shag: an unusual Stewart island shag at Taiaroa head. Notornis 40 (4), S. 270 - 272 (1993)

Paterson, A. M.; Gray, R. D.; Wallis, G. P.: Parasites, petrels and penguins: does louse presence reflect seabird phylogeny? International Journal for Parasitology 23 (4), S. 515 - 526 (1993)

Gavey, N. J.; Gray, R. D.: Rape: the perfect adaptationist story (The evolutionary psychology of men's coercive sexuality). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 (2), S. 386 - 388 (1992)

Gray, R. D.: Oppositions in panbiogeography: can the conflicts between selection, constraint, ecology, and history be resolved? New Zealand Journal of Zoology 16 (4), S. 787-806 (1989)

Oyama, S.; Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D. (Hg.): Cycles of contingency: developmental systems and evolution. MIT Press, Cambridge (2001), 376 S.

Greenhill, S. J.; Heggarty, P.; Gray, R. D.: Bayesian Phylolinguistic. In: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Bd. II, 11, S. 226 - 253 (Hg. Janda, R. D.; Joseph, B. D.; Vance, B. S.). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey (2020)

Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Did ritualized human sacrifice help build and sustain social inequality? In: The cognitive science of religion: A methodological introduction to key empirical studies, S. 239 - 248 (Hg. Slone, J.; McCorkle Jr., W.). Bloomsbury, London (2019)

Bulbulia, J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.: Why do religious cultures evolve slowly? The cultural evolution of cooperative calling and the historical study of religions. In: Mind, morality and magic: cognitive science approaches in biblical studies, S. 197 - 212 (Hg. Czachesz, I.; Uro, R.). Acumen, Durham (2013)

Bulbulia, J.; Geertz, A. W.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Cohen, E.; Evans, N.; Francois, P.; Gintis, H.; Gray, R. D.; Henrich, J.; Jordan, F. M. et al.; Norenzayan, A.; Richerson, P. J.; Slingerland, E.; Turchin, P.; Whitehouse, H.; Widlok, T.; Wilson, D. S.: Cultural evolution of religion. In: Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, S. 381 - 404 (Hg. Richerson, P. J.; Christiansen, M. H.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass (2013)

Dediu, D.; Cysouw, M.; Levinson, S. C.; Baronchelli, A.; Christiansen, M. H.; Croft, W.; Evans, N.; Garrod, S.; Gray, R. D.; Kandler, A. et al.; Lieven, E.: Cultural evolution of language. In: Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, S. 303 - 332 (Hg. Richerson, P. J.; Christiansen, M. H.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass (2013)

Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Phylogenetic models of language change: three new questions. In: Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, S. 285 - 302 (Hg. Richerson, P. J.; Christiansen, M. H.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass (2013)

Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: Why is tool use rare in animals? In: Tool use in animals: cognition and ecology, S. 89 - 118 (Hg. Sanz, C. M.; Call, J.; Boesch, C.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2013)

Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods. In: Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: A festschrift for Robert Blust, Pacific linguistics, Canberra Australia, S. 375 - 398 (Hg. Adelaar , A.; Pawley, A.). Pacific Linguistics, Canberra (2009)

O'Brien, M. J.; Lyman, R. L.; Collard, M.; Holden, C. J.; Gray, R. D.; Shennan, S. J.: Transmission, phylogenetics, and the evolution of cultural diversity. In: Cultural transmission and archaeology: issues and case studies, S. 39 - 58 (Hg. O'Brien, . J.; Society for American Archaeology ). Society for American Archaeology, Washington (2008)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.: Are accurate dates an intractable problem for historical linguistics? In: Mapping Our Ancestors: phylogenetic approaches in anthropology and prehistory, S. 269 - 296 (Hg. Lipo, C. P.). Aldine Transaction, New Brunswick (2006)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.: How old is the Indo-European language family?: illumination or more moths to the flame? In: Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, S. 91 - 109 (Hg. Forster, P.; Renfrew, C.). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (2006)

Holden, C. J.; Gray, R. D.: Rapid radiation, borrowing and dialect continua in the Bantu languages. In: Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, S. 19 - 31 (Hg. Forster, P.; Renfrew, C.). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (2006)

Nicholls, G. K.; Gray, R. D.: Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic model of vocabulary evolution. In: Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, S. 161 - 171 (Hg. Forster, P.; Renfrew, C.). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (2006)

Bryant, D.; Filimon, F.; Gray, R. D.: Untangling our past: languages, trees, splits and networks. In: The evolution of cultural diversity: a phylogenetic approach, S. 67 - 84 (Hg. Mace, R.; Holden, C. J.; Shennan, S.). UCL Press, London (2005)

Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Testing population dispersal hypotheses: Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees, and Austronesian languages. In: The evolution of cultural diversity: a phylogenetic approach, S. 31 - 52 (Hg. Mace, R.; Holden, C. J.; Shennan, S.). UCL Press, London (2005)

Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: The developmental systems perspective: organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution. In: Phenotypic integration: studying the ecology and evolution of complex phenotypes, S. 409 - 431 (Hg. Pigliucci, M.; Preston, . A.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford (2004)

Paterson, A. M.; Palma, R. L.; Gray, R. D.: Drowning on arrival, missing the boat, and x-events: how likely are sorting events? In: Tangled trees: phylogeny, cospeciation, and coevolution, S. 287 - 309 (Hg. Page, . D. M.). Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago (2003)

Gray, R. D.: Selfish genes or developmental systems? In: Thinking about evolution: historical, philosophical, and political perspectives, Bd. 2, S. 184 - 207 (Hg. Singh, R. S.). Cambridge Univ. Press., Cambridge (2001)

Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: Darwinism and developmental systems. In: Cycles of contingency: developmental systems and evolution, S. 195 - 218 (Hg. Oyama, S.; Grittiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.). MIT Press, Cambridge (2001)

Oyama, S.; Griffiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.: Introduction: what Is developmental systems theory? In: Cycles of contingency: developmental systems and evolution, S. 1 - 11 (Hg. Oyama, S.; Grittiths, P. E.; Gray, R. D.). MIT Press, Cambridge (2001)

Bergquist, P. R.; Walsh, D.; Gray, R. D.: Relationships within and between the orders of demospongiae that lack a mineral skeleton. In: Sponge Sciences: multidisciplinary perspectives, S. 31 - 40 (Hg. Watanabe, Y.). Springer, Tokyo (1998)

Gray, R. D.: "In the belly of the monster": feminism, developmental systems, and evolutionary explanations. In: Feminism and evolutionary biology, S. 385 - 413 (Hg. Gowaty, .). Springer, Berlin (1997)

Paterson, A. M.; Gray, R. D.: Host-parasite co-speciation, host switching, and missing the boat. In: Host-parasite evolution: General principles and avian models, S. 236 - 250 (Hg. Clayton, D. H.). Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford (1997)

Gray, R. D.: Faith and foraging: a critique of the "paradigm argument from design". In: Foraging behavior, S. 69 - 140 (Hg. Kamil, A. C.; Drebs, J. R.; Pulliam , H. R.). Plenum Press, New York (1987)

Gray, R. D.: Death of the gene: developmental systems strike back. In: Trees of life: Essays in philosophy of biology, S. 165 - 209 (Hg. Griffiths, P.). Conference on Philosophical Problems in Evolutionary Biology, Dunedin, New Zealand. Kluwer, Dordrecht (1992)

Gray, R. D.: Design, constraint and construction: essays and experiments on evolution and foraging. Dissertation, Univ. of Auckland, Auckland (1990)

McCoy, D. E.; Schiestl, M.; Neilands, P.; Hassall, R.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: New Caledonian crows behave optimistically after using tools (Current Biology, 29(16)). (2019), 10 S.

Haun, D.B.M.; Liebal, K.; Amici, F.; Bender, A.; Bohn, M.; Bräuer, J.; Buttelmann, D.; Burkart, J.; Cacchione, T.; Detroy, S. et al.; Faßbender, I.; Fichtel, C.; Fischer, J.; Gampe, A.; Gray, R. D.; Horn, L.; Ona, L.; Kärtner, J.; Kaminski, J.; Kanngießer, P.; Keller, H.; Köster, M.; Kopp, K.S.; Kornadt, H.-J.; Rakoczy, H.; Schuppli, C.; Stengelin, R.; Trommsdorff, G.; Van Leeuwen, E.; Van Schaik, C.: Ein Plädoyer für die Relevanz der Vergleichenden Psychologie für das Verständnis menschlicher Entwicklung, Psychologische Rundschau 71, S. 40 - 41 (2020)

Taylor, A. H.; Miller, R.; Gray, R. D.: Reply to Dymond et al.: Clear evidence of habituation counters counterbalancing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (5), S. E337 - E337 (2013)

Taylor, A. H.; Miller, R.; Gray, R. D.: Reply to Boogert et al.: The devil is unlikely to be in association or distraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110 (4), S. E274 - E274 (2013)

Forkel, R.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; List, J.-M.; Rzymski, C.; Tresoldi, T.: Managing historical linguistic data for computational phylogenetics and computer-assisted language comparison. Humanities Commons, pwva-kz72 (2019), 14 S.