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    Haynie, H. J.; Kavanagh, P. H.; Jordan, F. M.; Ember, C. R.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Kirby, K.; Kushnick, G.; Low, B. S.; Tuff, T. et al.; Vilela, B.; Botero, C. A.; Gavin, M. C.: Pathways to social inequality. SocArXiv (2019)
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    Barbieri, C.; Barquera Lozano, R. J.; Arias, L.; Sandoval, J. R.; Acosta, O.; Zurita, C.; Aguilar-Campos, A.; Tito-Álvarez, A. M.; Serrano-Osuna, R.; Gray, R. D. et al.; Mafessoni, F.; Heggarty, P.; Shimizu, K. K.; Fujita, R.; Stoneking, M.; Pugach, I.; Fehren-Schmitz, L.: The current genomic landscape of western South America: Andes, Amazonia and Pacific Coast. Molecular Biology and Evolution (2019)
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    Posth, C.; Nägele, K.; Colleran, H.; Valentin, F.; Bedford, S.; Gray, R. D.; Krause, J.; Powell, A.: Response to “Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands” (Bedford et al. 2018). Archaeology in Oceania 54, pp. 57 - 61 (2019)
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    Coelho, M. T. P.; Pereira, E. B.; Haynie, H. J.; Rangel, T. F.; Kavanagh, P.; Kirby, K.; Greenhill, S. J.; Bowern, C.; Gray, R. D.; Colwell, R. K. et al.; Evans, N.; Gavin, M. C.: Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1899), 20190242 (2019)
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    Gruber, R.; Schiestl, M.; Boeckle, M.; Frohnwieser, A.; Miller, R.; Gray, R. D.; Clayton, N. S.; Taylor, A. H.: New Caledonian Crows use mental representations to solve metatool problems. Current Biology 29 (4), pp. 686 - 692 (2019)
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    Jelbert, S. A.; Miller, R.; Schiestl, M.; Boeckle, M.; Cheke, L. G.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.; Clayton, N. S.: New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286 (1894), 20182332 (2019)
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    Moravec, J. C.; Atkinson, Q.; Bowern, C.; Greenhill, S. J.; Jordan, F. M.; Ross, R. M.; Gray, R. D.; Marsland, S.; Cox, M. P.: Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior 39 (6), pp. 594 - 601 (2018)
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    Forkel, R.; List, J.-M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Rzymski, C.; Bank, S.; Cysouw, M.; Hammarström, H.; Haspelmath, M.; Kaiping, G. A.; Gray, R. D.: Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics. Scientific Data 5 (2018)
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    Gavin, M. C.; Kavanagh, P. H.; Haynie, H. J.; Bowern, C.; Ember, C. R.; Gray, R. D.; Jordan, F. M.; Kirby, K.; Kushnick, G.; Low, B. S. et al.; Vilela, B.; Botero, C. A.: The global geography of human subsistence. Royal Society Open Science 5 (9) (2018)
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    Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies. Nature Human Behaviour 2 (2018)
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    Jelbert, S. A.; Hosking, R. J.; Taylor, A. H.; Gray, R. D.: Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions. Scientific Reports 8 (2018)
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    Kolipakam, V.; Jordan, F. M.; Dunn, M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Bouckaert, R.; Gray, R. D.; Verkerk, A.: A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science 5 (3) (2018)
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    Sheehan, O.; Watts, J.; Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (14), pp. 3628 - 3633 (2018)
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    Posth, C.; Nägele, K.; Colleran, H.; Valentin, F.; Bedford, S.; Kami, K. W.; Shing, R.; Buckley, H.; Kinaston, R.; Walworth, M. et al.; Clark, G. R.; Reepmeyer, C.; Flexner, J.; Maric, T.; Moser, J.; Gresky, J.; Kiko, L.; Robson, K. J.; Auckland, K.; Oppenheimer, S. J.; Hill, A. V. S.; Mentzer, A. J.; Zech, J.; Petchey, F.; Roberts, P.; Jeong, C.; Gray, R. D.; Krause, J.; Powell, A.: Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2 (4) (2018)
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    Kavanagh, P. H.; Vilela, B.; Haynie, H. J.; Tuff, T.; Lima-Ribeiro, M.; Gray, R. D.; Botero, C. A.; Gavin, M. C.: Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture. Nature Human Behaviour 2, pp. 478 - 484 (2018)
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    Barbieri, C.; Sandoval, J. R.; Valqui, J.; Shimelman, A.; Ziemendorff, S.; Schröder, R.; Geppert, M.; Roewer, L.; Gray, R. D.; Stoneking, M. et al.; Fujita, R.; Heggarty, P.: Enclaves of genetic diversity resisted Inca impacts on population history. Scientific Reports 7 (2017)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Wu, C.-H.; Hua, X.; Dunn, M.; Levinson, S. C.; Gray, R. D.: Evolutionary dynamics of language systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (42) (2017)
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    Gray, R. D.; Watts, J.: Cultural macroevolution matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114 (30) (2017)
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    Gavin, M. C.; Rangel, T. F.; Bowern, C.; Colwell, R. K.; Kirby, K. R.; Botero, C. A.; Dunn, M.; Dunn, R. R.; McCarter, J.; Coelho, M. T. P. et al.; Gray, R. D.: Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26 (5), pp. 584 - 591 (2017)
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    Heaney, M.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion. Royal Society Open Science 4 (3) (2017)
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    Heaney, M.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: Keas perform similarly to chimpanzees and elephants when solving collaborative tasks. PLoS One 12 (2) (2017)
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    List, J.-M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: The Potential of automatic word comparison for historical linguistics. PLoS One (2017)
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    Bulbina, J.; Fraser, G.; Watts, J.; Shaver, J. H.; Gray, R. D.: Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality? Religion, Brain and Behavior 7 (4), pp. 285 - 288 (2017)
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    Knaebe, B.; Taylor, A. H.; Elliffe, D. M.; Gray, R. D.: New Caledonian crows show behavioural flexibility when manufacturing their tools. Behaviour 154 (1), pp. 65 - 91 (2017)
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    Miller, R.; Jelbert, S. A.; Taylor, A. H.; Cheke, L. G.; Gray, R. D.; Loissel, E.; Clayton, N. S.: Performance in object-choice Aesop's fable tasks are influenced by object biases in new Caledonian crows but not in human children. PLoS One 11 (12) (2016)
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    Kirby, K. R.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Jordan, F.; Gomes-Ng, S.; Bibiko, H.-J.; Blasi, D. E.; Botero, C. A.; Bowern, C.; Ember, C. R. et al.; Leehr, D.; Low, B. S.; McCarter, J.; Divale, W.; Gavin, M. C.: D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity. PLoS One 11 (7) (2016)
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    Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature 532 (7598), 17159, pp. 228 - 231 (2016)
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    Matthews, L. J.; Passmore, S.; Richard, P. M.; Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Shared cultural history as a predictor of political and economic changes among nation states. PLoS One 11 (4) (2016)
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    Matsui, H.; Hunt, G. R.; Oberhofer, K.; Ogihara, N.; McGowan, K. J.; Mithraratne, K.; Yamasaki, T.; Gray, R. D.; Izawa, E.-I.: Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows. Scientific Reports 6 (2016)
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    Jelbert, S. A.; Taylor, A. H.; Gray, R. D.: Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task. Biology Letters 12 (2) (2016)
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    Watts, J.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (January), e27 (2016)
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    Knaebe, B.; Taylor, A. H.; Miller, R.; Gray, R. D.: New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to barb presence during pandanus tool manufacture and use. Behaviour 152 (15), pp. 2107 - 2125 (2015)
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    Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gomes-Ng, S.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Pulotu: Database of Austronesian supernatural beliefs and practices. PLoS One 10 (9) (2015)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Cheke, L. G.; Waismeyer, A.; Meltzoff, A.; Miller, R.; Gopnik, A.; Clayton, N. S.; Gray, R. D.: No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1813) (2015)
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    Watts, J.; Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Currie, T. E.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1804), 20142556 (2015)
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    Logan, C. J.; Jelbert, S. A.; Breen, A. J.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: Modifications to the Aesop's fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances. PLoS One 9 (7) (2014)
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    Kushnick, G.; Gray, R. D.; Jordan, F. M.: The sequential evolution of land tenure norms. Evolution and Human Behavior 35 (4), pp. 309 - 318 (2014)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Cheke, L. G.; Waismeyer, A.; Meltzoff, A. N.; Miller, R.; Gopnik, A.; Clayton, N. S.; Gray, R. D.: Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1787) (2014)
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    Paterson, A. M.; Wallis, G. P.; Kennedy, M.; Gray, R. D.: Behavioural evolution in penguins does not reflect phylogeny. Cladistics 30 (3), pp. 243 - 259 (2014)
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    Jelbert, S. A.; Taylor, A. H.; Cheke, L. G.; Clayton, N. S.; Gray, R. D.: Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows. PLoS One 9 (3) (2014)
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    Botero, C. A.; Gardner, B.; Kirby, K. R.; Bulbulia, J.; Gavin, M. C.; Gray, R. D.: The ecology of religious beliefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 111 (47), pp. 16784 - 16789 (2014)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Gray, R. D.: Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 5 (6), pp. 693 - 703 (2014)
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    Medina, F. S.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.; Wild, J. M.; Kubke, M. F.: Perineuronal satellite neuroglia in the telencephalon of New Caledonian crows and other passeriformes: evidence of satellite glial cells in the central nervous system of healthy birds? PeerJ 1 (2013)
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    Gavin, M. C.; Botero, C. A.; Bowern, C.; Colwell, R. K.; Dunn, M.; Dunn, R. R.; Gray, R. D.; Kirby, K. R.; McCarter, J.; Powell, A. et al.; Rangel, T. F.; Stepp, J. R.; Trautwein, M.; Verdolin, J. L.; Yanega, G.: Toward a mechanistic understanding of linguistic diversity. Bioscience 63 (7), pp. 524 - 535 (2013)
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    Bulbulia , J.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies (Human cultures are primarily adaptive at the group level). Cliodynamics: the journal of theoretical and mathematical history 4 (1), pp. 128 - 133 (2013)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Knaebe, B.; Gray, R. D.: An end to insight?: New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1749), pp. 4977 - 4981 (2012)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Miller, R.; Gray, R. D.: New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109 (40), pp. 16389 - 16391 (2012)
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    Bouckaert, R.; Lemey, P.; Dunn , M. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Alekseyenko, A. V.; Drummond, A. J.; Gray, R. D.; Suchard, M. A.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science 337 (6097), pp. 957 - 960 (2012)
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    Abdelkrim, J.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.; Gemmell, N. J.: Population genetic structure and colonisation history of the tool-using New Caledonian crow. PLoS One 7 (5) (2012)
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    Hunt, G. R.; Holzhaider, J. C.; Gray, R. D.: Prolonged parental feeding in tool-using New Caledonian crows. Ethology 118 (5), pp. 423 - 430 (2012)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Context-dependent tool use in New Caledonian crows. Biology Letters 8 (2), pp. 205 - 207 (2012)
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    Levinson, S. C.; Gray, R. D.: Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16 (3), pp. 167 - 173 (2012)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: issues of understanding and representation. Diachronica 29 (4), pp. 523 - 537 (2012)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Elliffe, D. M.; Hunt, G. R.; Emery, N. J.; Clayton, N. S.; Gray, R. D.: New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types. PLoS One 6 (12) (2011)
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    Medina, F. S.; Taylor, A. H.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: New Caledonian crows' responses to mirrors. Animal Behaviour 82 (5), pp. 981 - 993 (2011)
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    Bowern, C.; Epps, P.; Gray, R. D.; Hill, J.; Hunley, K.; McConvell, P.; Zentz, J.: Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? PLoS One 6 (9) (2011)
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    Nelson-Sathi, S.; List, J.-M.; Geisler, H.; Fangerau, H.; Gray, R. D.; Martin, W.; Dagan, T.: Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1713), pp. 1794 - 1803 (2011)
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    Dunne, M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Levinson, S. C.; Gray, R. D.: Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature 473 (7345), pp. 79 - 82 (2011)
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    Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Greenhill, S. J.: Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 366 (1567), pp. 1090 - 1100 (2011)
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    Holzhaider, J. C.; Sibley, M. D.; Taylor, A. H.; Singh, P. J.; Gray, R. D.; Hunt, G. R.: The social structure of New Caledonian crows. Animal Behaviour 81 (1), pp. 83 - 92 (2011)
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    Levinson, S. C.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.; Dunn, M.: Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families. Linguistic Typology 15, pp. 509 - 534 (2011)
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    Gray, R. D.; Bryant, D.; Greenhill, S. J.: On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1559), pp. 3923 - 3933 (2010)
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    Currie, T. E.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.; Hasegawa, T.; Mace, R.: Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature 467 (7317), pp. 801 - 804 (2010)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Elliffe, D.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1694), pp. 2637 - 2643 (2010)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Meade, A.; Gray, R. D.: The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1693), pp. 2443 - 2450 (2010)
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    Holzhaider, J. C.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Social learning in New Caledonian crows. Learning & Behavior 38 (3), pp. 206 - 219 (2010)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Drummond, A. J.; Gray, R. D.: How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships? PLoS One 5 (3) (2010)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Medina, F. S.; Holzhaider, J. C.; Hearne, L. J.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: An investigation into the cognition behind spontaneous string pulling in New Caledonian crows. PLoS One 5 (2) (2010)
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    Holzhaider, J. C.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: The development of pandanus tool manufacture in wild New Caledonian crows. Behaviour 147 (5-6), pp. 553 - 586 (2010)
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    Mehlhorn, J.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.; Rehkaemper, G.; Guentuerkuen, O.: Tool-making New Caledonian crows have large associative brain areas. Brain, behavior and evolution: official journal of thr J. B. Johnston Club 75 (1), pp. 63 - 70 (2010)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Gray, R. D.: Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact. Current Biology 19 (17), pp. R731 - R732 (2009)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Currie, T. E.; Gray, R. D.: Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1665), pp. 2299 - 2306 (2009)
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    Jordan, F.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Mace, R.: Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1664), pp. 1957 - 1964 (2009)
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    Gray, R. D.; Drummond, A. J.; Greenhill, S. J.: Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science 323 (5913), pp. 479 - 483 (2009)
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    Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.; Drummond, A. J.: Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1655), pp. 367 - 373 (2009)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Hunt, G. R.; Medina, F. S.; Gray, R. D.: Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1655), pp. 247 - 254 (2009)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.: Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review 66 (3), pp. 97 - 101 (2009)
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    Taylor, A.; Roberts, R.; Hunt, G.; Gray, R. D.: Causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows: ruling out spatial analogies and sampling error. Communicative & integrative biology 2 (4), pp. 311 - 312 (2009)
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    Holzhaider, J. C.; Hunt, G. R.; Campbell, V. M.; Gray, R. D.: Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools? Animal Cognition 11 (2), pp. 243 - 254 (2008)
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    Cnotka, J.; Guentuerkuen, O.; Rehkaemper, G.; Gray, R. D.; Hunt, G. R.: Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). Neuroscience Letters 433 (3), pp. 241 - 245 (2008)
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    Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.; Drummond, A. J.: MtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25 (2), pp. 468 - 474 (2008)
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    Greenhill, S. J.; Blust, R.; Gray, R. D.: The Austronesian basic vocabulary database: from bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 4, pp. 271 - 283 (2008)
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    Nicholls, G. K.; Gray, R. D.: Dated ancestral trees from binary trait data and their application to the diversification of languages. Journal of Royal Statistical Society - Serie B: Statistical Methodology 70, pp. 545 - 566 (2008)
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    Taylor, A. H.; Hunt, G. R.; Holzhaider, J. C.; Gray, R. D.: Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian crows. Current Biology 17 (17), pp. 1504 - 1507 (2007)
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    Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Genetic assimilation of behaviour does not eliminate learning and innovation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (4), pp. 412 - 413 (2007)
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    Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.: Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows. Biology Letters 3 (2), pp. 173 - 175 (2007)
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    Hunt, G. R.; Lambert, C.; Gray, R. D.: Cognitive requirements for tool use by New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 34 (1), pp. 1 - 7 (2007)
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    Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Ross, R. M.: The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory 2 (4), pp. 360 - 375 (2007)
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