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Evans, C. L.; Greenhill, S. J.; Watts, J.; List, J.-M.; Botero, C. A.; Gray, R. D.; Kirby, K.: The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 376 (1828), 2020.0056 (2021)

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Ejova, A.; Krátký, J.; Klocová, E. K.; Kundt, R.; Cigán, J.; Kotherová, S.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1940254 (2021)

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Starzak, T. B.; Gray, R. D.: Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition. Biology and Philosophy 36 (2), 9 (2021)

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Dussex, N.; Kutschera, V. E.; Wiberg, R. A. W.; Parker, D. J.; Hunt, G. R.; Gray, R. D.; Rutherford, K.; Abe, H.; Fleischer, R. C.; Ritchie, M. G. et al.; Rutz, C.; Wolf, J. B. W.; Gemmell, N. J.: A genome-wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein-coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology n/a (n/a), 15775 (2020)

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Vilela, B.; Fristoe, T.; Tuff, T.; Kavanagh, P. H.; Haynie, H. J.; Gray, R. D.; Gavin, M. C.; Botero, C. A.: Cultural transmission and ecological opportunity jointly shaped global patterns of reliance on agriculture. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2, e53, pp. 1 - 11 (2020)

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Uomini, N.; Fairlie, J.; Gray, R. D.; Griesser, M.: Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 375 (1803), 20190495, pp. 1 - 9 (2020)

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Bräuer, J.; Hanus, D.; Pika, S.; Gray, R. D.; Uomini, N.: Old and new approaches to animal cognition: there is not “One Cognition”. Journal of Intelligence, 8030028 (2020)

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Miller, R.; Gruber, R.; Frohnwieser, A.; Schiestl, M.; Jelbert, S. A.; Gray, R. D.; Boeckle, M.; Taylor, A. H.; Clayton, N. S.: Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task. PLoS One 15 (3), e0219874 (2020)

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Heaney, M.; Bastos, A. P. M.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.: Are kea prosocial? Ethology 126 (2), eth.12944, pp. 176 - 184 (2020)

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Rzymski, C.; Tresoldi, T.; Greenhill, S. J.; Wu, M.-S.; Schweikhard, N. E.; Koptjevskaja-Tamm, M.; Gast, V.; Bodt, T. A.; Hantgan, A.; Kaiping, G. A. et al.; Chang, S.; Lai, Y.; Morozova, N.; Arjava, H.; Hübler, N.; Koile, E.; Pepper, S.; Proos, M.; Epps, B. V.; Blanco, I.; Hundt, C.; Monakhov, S.; Pianykh, K.; Ramesh, S.; Gray, R. D.; Forkel, R.; List, J.-M.: The database of cross-linguistic colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific Data 7, 13 (2020)

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Miller, R.; Frohnwieser, A.; Schiestl, M.; McCoy, D. E.; Gray, R. D.; Taylor, A. H.; Clayton, N. S.: Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility. Animal Cognition 23 (1), s10071-019-01317-7, pp. 71 - 85 (2020)

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Jackson, J. C.; Watts, J.; Henry, T. R.; List, J.-M.; Forkel, R.; Mucha, P. J.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gray, R. D.; Lindquist, K. A.: Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science 366, pp. 1517 - 1522 (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 36 (12), msz174, pp. 2698 - 2713 (2019)

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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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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, 180205 (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), 171897 (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, pp. 559 - 564 (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, 8956 (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), 171504 (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), pp. 731 - 740 (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, 17411 (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), pp. E8822 - E8829 (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), pp. 7846 - 7852 (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), 160461 (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), e0169799 (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, 0170046 (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), e0168056 (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), e0158391 (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), e0152979 (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, 22776 (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), e0136783 (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), 20150796 (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), e103049 (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), 20140837 (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), e92895 (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, e110 (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), e36608 (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), e26887 (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), e25195 (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), e9573 (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), e9345 (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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