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Quentin Atkinson
- Hoverd, W., Sibley C. & Atkinson, Q. D. (In press). Group size and the trajectory of religious identification. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
- Shultz, S., Opie, C. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2011). Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates. Nature, 479:219-222.
- Atkinson, Q. D. (2011). Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations. Linguistic Typology, 15, 321-332.
- Atkinson, Q. D. (2011). Phonemic Diversity Supports Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa. Science, 332:346-349.
- Bourrat, P., Atkinson, Q. D., and Dunbar, R. (2011). Supernatural punishment and individual social compliance across cultures. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 1(2), 119-134.
- Gray, R.D., Atkinson, Q. D. & Greenhill, S. J. (2011). Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B. 366:1090-1100.
- Atkinson, Q. D. & Whitehouse, H. (2011). The cultural morphospace of ritual form. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32:50-62.
- Atkinson, Q. D. & Bourrat, P. (2011). Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32:40-49.
- Greenhill S. J, Atkinson Q. D., Meade A., & Gray R. D. (2010) The shape and tempo of language evolution . Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 277:2443-2450.
- Atkinson, Q. D. (2010). The prospects for tracing deep language ancestry. Journal of Anthropological Science. 88: 231-233.
- Atkinson, Q. D. Gray, R.D. and Drummond, A. J. (2009). Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mtDNA haplogroup expansions in Africa. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lon. B. 276: 367-373.
- Atkinson, Q. D. (2009). Langauge Classification by Numbers (Review). Diachronica, 26(1): 125-133.
- Pagel, M. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2008). The potential for genetic adaptations to language. Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 31(5): 529-530.
- Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A. M., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008). Response to “Parsing the Evolution of Language”, Joseph, B. D. and Mufwene, S. S. Science, 320: 446.
- Brock, G. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2008). What can examining the psychology of nationalism tell us about our prospects for aiming at the cosmopolitan vision? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 11(2): 165-179.
- Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A. M., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008). Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science, 319: 588.
- Atkinson, Q. D., Gray, R. D. and Drummond, A. J. (2008). mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major southern Asian chapter in human prehistory. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 25(2):468-474.
- Harré, N. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2007). Carbon Neutral by 2020: How New Zealanders can tackle climate change. Craig Potton Publishing (Nelson, New Zealand).
- Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D. and Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature, 449: 717-20.
- Atkinson, Q. D. and Gray, R. D. (2006). How old is the Indo-European language family? Illumination or more moths to the flame? Pages 91-109 in Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages Eds. J. Clackson, P. Forster and C. Renfrew. MacDonald Institute (Cambridge).
- Atkinson, Q. D. and Gray, R. D. (2006). Are Accurate Dates an Intractable Problem for Historical Linguistics? Pages 269-296 in Mapping our Ancestry: Phylogenetic Methods in Anthropology and Prehistory. Eds. C. Lipo, M. O’Brien, S. Shennan & M. Collard. Aldine (Chicago).
- Atkinson, Q. D. and Gray, R. D. (2005). Curious parallels, curious connections - Phylogenetic Thinking in Biology and Historical Linguistics, Systematic Biology, 54(4): 513-526.
- Atkinson, Q. D., Nicholls, G., Welch, D. and Gray, R. D. (2005). From Words to Dates: Water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference? Transactions of the Philological Society, 103(2), 193-219.
- Gray, R. D. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2003). Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature, 426: 435-9. (PDF version)
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