Publications
Journal Article (143)
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36 (2), 9 (2021)
Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition. Biology and Philosophy 2.
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n/a (n/a), 15775 (2020)
A genome-wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein-coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology 3.
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2, e53, pp. 1 - 11 (2020)
Cultural transmission and ecological opportunity jointly shaped global patterns of reliance on agriculture. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4.
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375 (1803), 20190495, pp. 1 - 9 (2020)
Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 5.
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Old and new approaches to animal cognition: there is not “One Cognition”. Journal of Intelligence, 8030028 (2020)
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15 (3), e0219874 (2020)
Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task. PLoS One 7.
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126 (2), eth.12944, pp. 176 - 184 (2020)
Are kea prosocial? Ethology 8.
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7, 13 (2020)
The database of cross-linguistic colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies. Scientific Data 9.
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23 (1), s10071-019-01317-7, pp. 71 - 85 (2020)
Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility. Animal Cognition 10.
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366, pp. 1517 - 1522 (2019)
Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure. Science 11.
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36 (12), msz174, pp. 2698 - 2713 (2019)
The current genomic landscape of western South America: Andes, Amazonia and Pacific Coast. Molecular Biology and Evolution 12.
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Pathways to social inequality. SocArXiv (2019)
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54, pp. 57 - 61 (2019)
Response to “Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands” (Bedford et al. 2018). Archaeology in Oceania 14.
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286 (1899), 20190242 (2019)
Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 15.
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29 (4), pp. 686 - 692 (2019)
New Caledonian Crows use mental representations to solve metatool problems. Current Biology 16.
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286 (1894), 20182332 (2019)
New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 17.
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39 (6), pp. 594 - 601 (2018)
Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior 18.
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5, 180205 (2018)
Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics. Scientific Data 19.
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5 (9), 171897 (2018)
The global geography of human subsistence. Royal Society Open Science 20.
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2, pp. 559 - 564 (2018)
Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies. Nature Human Behaviour 21.
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8, 8956 (2018)
Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions. Scientific Reports 22.
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5 (3), 171504 (2018)
A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science 23.
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115 (14), pp. 3628 - 3633 (2018)
Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 24.
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2 (4), pp. 731 - 740 (2018)
Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania. Nature Ecology & Evolution 25.
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2, pp. 478 - 484 (2018)
Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture. Nature Human Behaviour 26.
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7, 17411 (2017)
Enclaves of genetic diversity resisted Inca impacts on population history. Scientific Reports 27.
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114 (42), pp. E8822 - E8829 (2017)
Evolutionary dynamics of language systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 28.
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114 (30), pp. 7846 - 7852 (2017)
Cultural macroevolution matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 29.
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26 (5), pp. 584 - 591 (2017)
Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30.
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4 (3), 160461 (2017)
Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion. Royal Society Open Science 31.
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12 (2), e0169799 (2017)
Keas perform similarly to chimpanzees and elephants when solving collaborative tasks. PLoS One 32.
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The Potential of automatic word comparison for historical linguistics. PLoS One, 0170046 (2017)
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7 (4), pp. 285 - 288 (2017)
Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality? Religion, Brain and Behavior 34.
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154 (1), pp. 65 - 91 (2017)
New Caledonian crows show behavioural flexibility when manufacturing their tools. Behaviour 35.
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11 (12), e0168056 (2016)
Performance in object-choice Aesop's fable tasks are influenced by object biases in new Caledonian crows but not in human children. PLoS One 36.
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11 (7), e0158391 (2016)
D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity. PLoS One 37.
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532 (7598), 17159, pp. 228 - 231 (2016)
Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature 38.
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11 (4), e0152979 (2016)
Shared cultural history as a predictor of political and economic changes among nation states. PLoS One 39.
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6, 22776 (2016)
Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows. Scientific Reports 40.
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12 (2) (2016)
Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task. Biology Letters 41.
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39 (January), e27 (2016)
Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.
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152 (15), pp. 2107 - 2125 (2015)
New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to barb presence during pandanus tool manufacture and use. Behaviour 43.
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10 (9), e0136783 (2015)
Pulotu: Database of Austronesian supernatural beliefs and practices. PLoS One 44.
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282 (1813), 20150796 (2015)
No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 45.
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282 (1804), 20142556 (2015)
Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 46.
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9 (7), e103049 (2014)
Modifications to the Aesop's fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances. PLoS One 47.
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35 (4), pp. 309 - 318 (2014)
The sequential evolution of land tenure norms. Evolution and Human Behavior 48.
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281 (1787), 20140837 (2014)
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 49.
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30 (3), pp. 243 - 259 (2014)
Behavioural evolution in penguins does not reflect phylogeny. Cladistics 50.
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9 (3), e92895 (2014)
Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows. PLoS One 51.
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111 (47), pp. 16784 - 16789 (2014)
The ecology of religious beliefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 52.
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5 (6), pp. 693 - 703 (2014)
Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 53.
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1, e110 (2013)
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 54.
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63 (7), pp. 524 - 535 (2013)
Toward a mechanistic understanding of linguistic diversity. Bioscience 55.
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4 (1), pp. 128 - 133 (2013)
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 56.
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279 (1749), pp. 4977 - 4981 (2012)
An end to insight?: New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 57.
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109 (40), pp. 16389 - 16391 (2012)
New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 58.
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337 (6097), pp. 957 - 960 (2012)
Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science 59.
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7 (5), e36608 (2012)
Population genetic structure and colonisation history of the tool-using New Caledonian crow. PLoS One 60.
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118 (5), pp. 423 - 430 (2012)
Prolonged parental feeding in tool-using New Caledonian crows. Ethology 61.
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8 (2), pp. 205 - 207 (2012)
Context-dependent tool use in New Caledonian crows. Biology Letters 62.
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16 (3), pp. 167 - 173 (2012)
Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 63.
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29 (4), pp. 523 - 537 (2012)
Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: issues of understanding and representation. Diachronica 64.
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6 (12), e26887 (2011)
New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types. PLoS One 65.
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82 (5), pp. 981 - 993 (2011)
New Caledonian crows' responses to mirrors. Animal Behaviour 66.
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6 (9), e25195 (2011)
Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages? PLoS One 67.
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278 (1713), pp. 1794 - 1803 (2011)
Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 68.
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473 (7345), pp. 79 - 82 (2011)
Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature 69.
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366 (1567), pp. 1090 - 1100 (2011)
Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 70.
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81 (1), pp. 83 - 92 (2011)
The social structure of New Caledonian crows. Animal Behaviour 71.
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15, pp. 509 - 534 (2011)
Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families. Linguistic Typology 72.
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365 (1559), pp. 3923 - 3933 (2010)
On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 73.
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467 (7317), pp. 801 - 804 (2010)
Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature 74.
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277 (1694), pp. 2637 - 2643 (2010)
Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 75.
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277 (1693), pp. 2443 - 2450 (2010)
The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 76.
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38 (3), pp. 206 - 219 (2010)
Social learning in New Caledonian crows. Learning & Behavior 77.
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5 (3), e9573 (2010)
How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships? PLoS One 78.
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5 (2), e9345 (2010)
An investigation into the cognition behind spontaneous string pulling in New Caledonian crows. PLoS One 79.
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147 (5-6), pp. 553 - 586 (2010)
The development of pandanus tool manufacture in wild New Caledonian crows. Behaviour 80.
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75 (1), pp. 63 - 70 (2010)
Tool-making New Caledonian crows have large associative brain areas. Brain, behavior and evolution: official journal of thr J. B. Johnston Club 81.
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19 (17), pp. R731 - R732 (2009)
Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact. Current Biology 82.
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276 (1665), pp. 2299 - 2306 (2009)
Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 83.
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276 (1664), pp. 1957 - 1964 (2009)
Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 84.
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323 (5913), pp. 479 - 483 (2009)
Language phylogenies reveal expansion pulses and pauses in Pacific settlement. Science 85.
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276 (1655), pp. 367 - 373 (2009)
Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 86.
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276 (1655), pp. 247 - 254 (2009)
Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 87.
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66 (3), pp. 97 - 101 (2009)
Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review 88.
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2 (4), pp. 311 - 312 (2009)
Causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows: ruling out spatial analogies and sampling error. Communicative & integrative biology 89.
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11 (2), pp. 243 - 254 (2008)
Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools? Animal Cognition 90.
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433 (3), pp. 241 - 245 (2008)
Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). Neuroscience Letters 91.
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25 (2), pp. 468 - 474 (2008)
MtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory. Molecular Biology and Evolution 92.
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4, pp. 271 - 283 (2008)
The Austronesian basic vocabulary database: from bioinformatics to lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics 93.
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70, pp. 545 - 566 (2008)
Dated ancestral trees from binary trait data and their application to the diversification of languages. Journal of Royal Statistical Society - Serie B: Statistical Methodology 94.
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17 (17), pp. 1504 - 1507 (2007)
Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian crows. Current Biology 95.
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30 (4), pp. 412 - 413 (2007)
Genetic assimilation of behaviour does not eliminate learning and innovation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 96.
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3 (2), pp. 173 - 175 (2007)
Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows. Biology Letters 97.
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34 (1), pp. 1 - 7 (2007)
Cognitive requirements for tool use by New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 98.
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2 (4), pp. 360 - 375 (2007)
The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory 99.
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55 (5), pp. 291 - 298 (2007)
Innovative pandanus-tool folding by New Caledonian crows. Australian Journal of Zoology