Russell Gray
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- PhD Linguistics University of Auckland
- Bachelors Zoology University of Auckland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Russell David Gray is a New Zealand evolutionary biologist and psychologist working on applying quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. In 2020, he became a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Although originally trained in biology and psychology, Gray has become well known for his studies on the evolution of the Indo-European and Austronesian language families using computational phylogenetic methods.
Russell Gray's Published Works
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Published Works
- Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (2001) (851)
- Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin (2003) (846)
- Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation (1994) (768)
- Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement (2009) (617)
- Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family (2012) (522)
- Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals (2011) (431)
- Can ecological theory predict the distribution of foraging animals? A critical analysis of experiments on the ideal free distribution (1993) (383)
- Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion (2000) (373)
- Diversification and cumulative evolution in New Caledonian crow tool manufacture (2003) (311)
- mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory. (2008) (255)
- The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics (2008) (224)
- Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia (2015) (224)
- Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows (2007) (198)
- Darwinism and developmental systems (2001) (184)
- Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning? (2009) (184)
- Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies (2009) (178)
- Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific (2010) (178)
- Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure (2019) (164)
- On the shape and fabric of human history (2010) (162)
- The crafting of hook tools by wild New Caledonian crows (2004) (160)
- The ecology of religious beliefs (2014) (154)
- Curious parallels and curious connections--phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics. (2005) (153)
- The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with Phylogenies) (2007) (153)
- Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows (2010) (153)
- Death of the gene: developmental systems strike back (1992) (151)
- D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity (2016) (145)
- Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? (2009) (144)
- Introduction: what Is developmental systems theory? (2001) (129)
- Untangling Oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable (2003) (127)
- Host-parasite co-speciation, host switching, and missing the boat (1997) (119)
- Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages (2012) (114)
- The shape and tempo of language evolution (2010) (114)
- Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies (2016) (112)
- Replicator II – Judgement Day (1997) (110)
- Seabird and louse coevolution: complex histories revealed by 12S rRNA sequences and reconciliation analyses. (2000) (99)
- Untangling our past : languages, trees, splits and networks (2005) (97)
- An Investigation into the Cognition Behind Spontaneous String Pulling in New Caledonian Crows (2010) (97)
- Social learning in new Caledonian crows (2010) (96)
- Direct observations of pandanus-tool manufacture and use by a New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) (2004) (95)
- Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa (2009) (94)
- Tool-Making New Caledonian Crows Have Large Associative Brain Areas (2010) (93)
- Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows (2014) (92)
- PENGUINS, PETRELS, AND PARSIMONY: DOES CLADISTIC ANALYSIS OF BEHAVIOR REFLECT SEABIRD PHYLOGENY? (1995) (92)
- Discussion: Three Ways to Misunderstand Developmental Systems Theory (2005) (91)
- Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution (2010) (90)
- Faith and foraging: a critique of the "paradigm argument from design" (1987) (90)
- Evolutionary dynamics of language systems (2017) (89)
- Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics (2018) (89)
- Does Lateral Transmission Obscure Inheritance in Hunter-Gatherer Languages? (2011) (86)
- Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) (2008) (85)
- FROM WORDS TO DATES: WATER INTO WINE, MATHEMAGIC OR PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE? (2005) (85)
- Cultural evolution of religion (2013) (85)
- How frequently do avian lice miss the boat? : implications for coevolutionary studies (1999) (83)
- Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes (2011) (80)
- Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania (2018) (78)
- An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions (2012) (77)
- New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents (2012) (77)
- The right tool for the job: what strategies do wild New Caledonian crows use? (2006) (77)
- Laterality in tool manufacture by crows (2001) (75)
- Species-wide manufacture of stick-type tools by New Caledonian Crows (2002) (73)
- Hop, step and gape: do the social displays of the Pelecaniformes reflect phylogeny? (1996) (72)
- The development of pandanus tool manufacture in wild New Caledonian crows (2010) (70)
- Parasites, petrels and penguins: Does louse presence reflect seabird phylogeny? (1993) (70)
- The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics (2017) (70)
- New Caledonian Crows Learn the Functional Properties of Novel Tool Types (2011) (70)
- Perceptual constraints on optimal foraging: a reason for departures from the ideal free distribution? (1994) (69)
- The phylogenetic relationships of the shags and cormorants: can sequence data resolve a disagreement between behavior and morphology? (2000) (67)
- Why is tool use rare in animals (2013) (66)
- The social structure of New Caledonian crows (2011) (64)
- Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity (2013) (64)
- Rapid radiation, borrowing and dialect continua in the Bantu languages (2006) (61)
- Untangling long branches: identifying conflicting phylogenetic signals using spectral analysis, neighbor-net, and consensus networks. (2005) (60)
- Rapid evolutionary divergences in reef fishes of the family Acanthuridae (Perciformes: Teleostei). (2003) (56)
- A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family (2018) (55)
- Dated ancestral trees from binary trait data and their application to the diversification of languages (2007) (53)
- Testing population dispersal hypotheses : Pacific settlement, phylogenetic trees, and Austronesian languages (2005) (52)
- ENERGY AND THE RATE OF EVOLUTION: INFERENCES FROM PLANT rDNA SUBSTITUTION RATES IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (2003) (52)
- Corrected analyses show that moralizing gods precede complex societies but serious data concerns remain : In reply to "Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history" (2019) (51)
- How old is the Indo-European language family? : illumination or more moths to the flame? (2006) (50)
- New Caledonian Crows Use Mental Representations to Solve Metatool Problems (2019) (48)
- New Caledonian crows’ responses to mirrors (2011) (47)
- Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods (2009) (47)
- Evolutionary psychology and the challenge of adaptive explanation (2003) (45)
- Modifications to the Aesop's Fable Paradigm Change New Caledonian Crow Performances (2014) (43)
- Selfish genes or developmental systems (2001) (43)
- Cultural macroevolution matters (2017) (43)
- Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task (2016) (42)
- Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools? (2008) (42)
- Drowning on arrival, missing the boat, and x-events: how likely are sorting events? (2003) (42)
- How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? (2010) (40)
- The Current Genomic Landscape of Western South America: Andes, Amazonia, and Pacific Coast (2019) (39)
- Context-dependent tool use in New Caledonian crows (2012) (38)
- Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture (2018) (38)
- Transmission, phylogenetics, and the evolution of cultural diversity (2008) (38)
- How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture (2016) (37)
- Keas Perform Similarly to Chimpanzees and Elephants when Solving Collaborative Tasks (2017) (35)
- Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices (2015) (35)
- Patch choice with competitive asymmetries and perceptual limits: the importance of history (1995) (35)
- The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of evolution (2004) (34)
- Basic vocabulary and Bayesian phylolinguistics: issues of understanding and representation (2012) (34)
- Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows (2016) (34)
- Quantifying the Effect of Predation Risk on Foraging Bullies: No Need to Assume an IFD (1994) (33)
- Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition (2020) (33)
- Habitat choice, habitat matching and the effect of travel distance (1997) (33)
- Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy (2018) (32)
- Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions (2018) (30)
- Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention (2014) (29)
- Design complexity and strength of laterality are correlated in New Caledonian crows' pandanus tool manufacture (2006) (29)
- Causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows (2009) (28)
- Sparrows, matching and the ideal free distribution: can biological and psychological approaches be synthesized? (1994) (28)
- Heterogeneity of SSU and LSU rDNA sequences of Alexandrium species (1998) (28)
- New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze (2019) (28)
- Are Accurate Dates an Intractable Problem for Historical Linguistics (2006) (28)
- Oppositions in panbiogeography: Can the conflicts between selection, constraint, ecology, and history be resolved? (1989) (27)
- Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows (2007) (27)
- Prolonged Parental Feeding in Tool‐Using New Caledonian Crows (2012) (27)
- Investigating animal cognition with the Aesop's Fable paradigm: Current understanding and future directions (2015) (27)
- Animal Cognition: Aesop's Fable Flies from Fiction to Fact (2009) (27)
- Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases (2020) (26)
- New Caledonian Crows Rapidly Solve a Collaborative Problem without Cooperative Cognition (2015) (25)
- Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes among Nation States (2016) (25)
- Pushing the Time Barrier in the Quest for Language Roots (2005) (25)
- Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features (2021) (23)
- Reasoning by exclusion in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) cannot be explained by avoidance of empty containers. (2015) (23)
- Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic model of vocabulary evolution (2006) (22)
- Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not “One Cognition” (2020) (22)
- Enclaves of genetic diversity resisted Inca impacts on population history (2017) (22)
- Cultural evolution of language (2013) (22)
- Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods (2021) (22)
- Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition? (2014) (21)
- Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution (2018) (21)
- Perceptual constraints on optimal foraging: The effects of variation among foragers (1996) (21)
- Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity (2019) (20)
- The global geography of human subsistence (2018) (19)
- Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families (2011) (19)
- Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion (2017) (19)
- Cognitive requirements for tool use by New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) (2007) (18)
- The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution (2021) (18)
- Tool manufacture by New Caledonian crows : chipping away at human uniqueness (2006) (18)
- Of lice and men: The return of the ’comparative parasitology‘ debate (1995) (16)
- New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use (2020) (15)
- Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies (2018) (15)
- Innovative pandanus-tool folding by New Caledonian crows (2007) (15)
- Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity (2017) (15)
- Sequence heterogeneity of the ribosomal RNA intergenic region Alexandrium species (1997) (14)
- The sequential evolution of land tenure norms (2014) (14)
- Performance in Object-Choice Aesop’s Fable Tasks Are Influenced by Object Biases in New Caledonian Crows but not in Human Children (2016) (13)
- New Caledonian crows show behavioural flexibility when manufacturing their tools (2017) (13)
- "In the belly of the monster" : feminism, developmental systems, and evolutionary explanations (1997) (13)
- Are kea prosocial? (2019) (12)
- Population Genetic Structure and Colonisation History of the Tool-Using New Caledonian Crow (2012) (12)
- No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions (2015) (11)
- New Caledonian Crows Behave Optimistically after Using Tools (2019) (11)
- Reply to Boogert et al.: The devil is unlikely to be in association or distraction (2013) (10)
- Reply to Dymond et al.: Clear evidence of habituation counters counterbalancing (2013) (10)
- Phylogeny of the raphidophytes Heterosigma carterae and Chattonella antiqua using 'V4' domain SSU rDNA sequences (1996) (9)
- Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task (2019) (8)
- Relationships within and between the orders of demospongiae that lack a mineral skeleton. (1998) (8)
- New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to barb presence during pandanus tool manufacture and use (2015) (7)
- Genetic assimilation of behaviour does not eliminate learning and innovation (2007) (7)
- Animal behaviour: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows. (2001) (7)
- Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition (2021) (7)
- Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility (2019) (7)
- Agonistic interactions and the distribution of foraging organisms : individual costs and social information (2010) (6)
- Bayesian Phylolinguistics (2020) (6)
- Phylogenetic models of language change : three new questions (2013) (6)
- Phylogenetic Models of Language Change (2013) (6)
- Misconceptions or misreadings? : missing the real issues about the IFD (1994) (5)
- 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? (2013) (5)
- Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods (2016) (5)
- Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality? (2017) (4)
- Cultural transmission and ecological opportunity jointly shaped global patterns of reliance on agriculture (2020) (4)
- Phylogenetics and the evolution of cultural diversity (2008) (4)
- Triangulation fails when neither linguistic, genetic, nor archaeological data support the Transeurasian narrative (2022) (4)
- Pathways to social inequality (2019) (4)
- Striking Genetic Diversity Among Populations of West Africa Uncovers the Mystery of a Language Isolate (2020) (3)
- Why do religious cultures evolve slowly? The cultural evolution of cooperative calling and the historical study of religions (2013) (3)
- Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route (2022) (3)
- Behavioural evolution in penguins does not reflect phylogeny (2014) (3)
- A yellow-footed pink-footed shag : an unusual Stewart island shag at Taiaroa head (1993) (2)
- Response to “Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands” (Bedfordet al. 2018) (2019) (2)
- New Caledonian crows' planning behaviour: a reply to de Mahy et al. (2021) (2)
- The genomic landscape of western South America: Andes, Amazonia and Pacific Coast (2018) (2)
- Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss (2023) (2)
- Rape: The perfect adaptationist story (1992) (2)
- Perceptual constraints on optimal of variation among foragers foraging: the effects (1996) (1)
- Caledonian crows Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New (2010) (1)
- A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories (2022) (1)
- A genome‐wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein‐coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows (2020) (1)
- First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies: a commentary on David Sloan Wilson (2014) (1)
- Managing Historical Linguistic Data for Computational Phylogenetics and Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (2019) (1)
- Video Supplement supporting the Article: New Caledonian crows flexibly plan for specific future tool use (2018) (1)
- DID RITUALIZED HUMAN SACRIFICE HELP BUILD AND SUSTAIN SOCIAL INEQUALITY? (2019) (1)
- Mind, Morality and Magic (2013) (1)
- Comment on Terrell, Kelly and Rainbird (2001) (1)
- The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Shags and Cormorants : Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2000) (1)
- Measuring variation in phoneme inventories (2021) (1)
- The awe-prosociality relationship: evidence for the role of context (2021) (1)
- Data from: The global geography of human subsistence (2018) (1)
- A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family (2023) (1)
- Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages (2009) (0)
- Language Evolution and Human History (2011) (0)
- The evolution of global religions (2019) (0)
- Theme issue ‘Cultural and linguistic diversity: evolutionary approaches’ compiled and edited by James Steele, Peter Jordan and Ethan Cochrane (2011) (0)
- Grambank’s Typological Advances Support Computational Research on Diverse Languages (2023) (0)
- Do Kea Birds Have Cooperative Abilities (2017) (0)
- Did Religion Play a Causal Role in the Evolution of Large, Complex Societies? (2017) (0)
- Dating and Placing Indo-European: Anatolia, 9,000 Years BP (2016) (0)
- The New Collaborative Scientific Study of Religious History (2018) (0)
- Publisher Correction: Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions (2019) (0)
- Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility (2019) (0)
- New Caledonian crow social learning apparatus demonstration (2015) (0)
- Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania (2018) (0)
- Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies (2018) (0)
- Language continuity despite population 1 replacement in Remote Oceania 2 3 (2019) (0)
- causal intervention sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel Of babies and birds : complex tool behaviours are not (2014) (0)
- Report Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows (2007) (0)
- Genetic relationships and linguistic diversity in present-day populations of South America (2020) (0)
- Supplementary material from "Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion" (2017) (0)
- The perception of quantity ain't number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference (2021) (0)
- Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture (2018) (0)
- How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture (2015) (0)
- First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies (Human cultures are primarily adaptive at the group level) (2013) (0)
- What ROle Did Religion Play in the Transition from Small Relatively Egalitarian Societies to Bigger Hierarchical Societies (2016) (0)
- Pairwise comparisons from the logistic model of the inequity conditions experienced by group one (Test 1b). (2015) (0)
- Supplementary material from "The global geography of human subsistence" (2018) (0)
- Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies (2022) (0)
- Mean number of stones passed in an inequity test by group 2 (Test 2c). (2015) (0)
- correction: Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion (2001) (0)
- A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: the case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking (2022) (0)
- An observation of aggressive nest defence in the Pitt island shag (Stictocarbo featherstoni) (1996) (0)
- The Misconception of Language Particularism (2013) (0)
- Speciation patterns across five global religions (2017) (0)
- Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions (2018) (0)
- 1 Darwinism and Developmental Systems (2001) (0)
- Correction for Sheehan et al., Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy (2018) (0)
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