Journal Articles

Claessens, S., Kyritsis, T. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the nonindependence of nations. Nature Communications, 14, 5776. link

Sheehan, O., Watts, J., Gray, R. D., Bulbulia, J., Claessens, S., Ringen, E. J., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(1), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01471-y

Heggarty, P., Anderson, C., Scarborough, M., King, B., Bouckaert, R., Jocz, L., Kümmel, M. J., Jügel, T., Irslinger, B., Pooth, R., Liljegren, H., Strand, R. F., Haig, G., Macák, M., Kim, R. I., Anonby, E., Pronk, T., Belyaev, O., Dewey-Findell, T. K., Boutilier, M., Freiberg, C., Tegethoff, R., Serangeli, M., Liosis, N., Stroński, K., Schulte, K., Gupta, G. K., Haak, W., Krause, J., Atkinson, Q. D., Greenhill, S. J., Kühnert, D. & Gray, R. D. (2023). Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science, 381(6656), eabg0818. free download

Skirgård, H., Haynie, H. J., Blasi, D. E., Hammarström, H., Collins, J., Latarche, J. J., … Atkinson, Q.D. & Gray, R. D. (2023). Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances, 9(16), eadg6175. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6175

Jackson, J. C., Lindquist, K., Drabble, R., Atkinson, Q.D., & Watts, J. (2023). Valence-dependent mutation in lexical evolution. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(2), 190-199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01483-8

Claessens, S., Sibley, C. G., Chaudhuri, A., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Cooperative and conformist behavioural preferences predict the dual dimensions of political ideology. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4886. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31721-6

Lavender Forsyth, G., Chaudhuri, A., Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Validating the dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1189771

Fischer, K., Chaudhuri, A., Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology predict divergent responses to COVID-19. British Journal of Political Science, 53(3), 861-877. Link

Yurdum, L., Singh, M., Glowacki, L., Vardy, T., Atkinson, Q. D., Hilton, C. B., Sauter, D., Krasnow, M. M. & Mehr, S. A. (2023). Universal interpretations of vocal music. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(37), e2218593120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218593120

Bendixen, T., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., Henrich, J., McNamara, R. A., Norenzayan, A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas D. & Purzycki, B. G. (2023) Appealing to the minds of gods: religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies, Religion, Brain & Behavior, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2023.2178487

Ross, C. T., Hooper, P. L., Smith, J. E., Jaeggi, A. V., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., … Atkinson, Q. D., Apicella, C., Alam, N. & Mulder, M. B. (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(22), e2220124120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Bendixen, T., Lightner, A. D., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Klocová, E. K., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Lang, M. & Purzycki, B. G. (2023). Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e18. link

Kyritsis, T., Matthews, L. J., Welch, D., and Atkinson, Q. D. (2022). Shared cultural ancestry predicts the global diffusion of democracy. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, E42. doi:10.1017/ehs.2022.40

Claessens, S., Kelly, D., Sibley, C. G., Chaudhuri, A., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2022). Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour. Scientific reports, 12, 12730. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16937-2

Hilton, C. B., Moser, C., Bertolo, M., Lee-Rubin, H., Amir, D., Bainbridge, C. M., Simson, J., Knox, D., Glowacki, L., Alemu, E., Galbarczyk, A., Jasienska, G., Ross, C. T., Neff, M. B., Martin, A., Cirelli, L. K., Trehub, S. E., Song, J., Kim, M., Schachner, A., Vardy, T. A., Atkinson, Q. D., Salenius, A., Andelin, J., Antfolk, J., Madhivanan, P., Siddaiah, A., Placek, C. D., Salali, G. D., Keestra, S., Singh, M., Collins, S. A., Patton, J. Q., Scaff, C., Stieglitz, J., Ccari Cutipa, S., Moya, C., Sagar, R. R., Anyawire, M., Mabulla, A., Wood, B. M., Krasnow, M. M., & Mehr, S. A. (2022). Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. 6 (11), 1545-1556. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01410-x

Atkinson, Q. D., Claessens, S., Fischer, K., Forsyth, G. L., Kyritsis, T., Wiebels, K., & Moreau, D. (2022). Being specific about generalisability. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–3. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070251 link

Hoogeveen, S., Sarafoglou, A., Aczel, B., Aditya, Y., Alayan, A. J., Allen, P. J., Altay, S., Alzahawi, S., Amir, Y., Anthony, F.-V., Kwame Appiah, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Baimel, A., Balkaya-Ince, M., Balsamo, M., Banker, S., Bartoš, F., Becerra, M., Beffara, B., … Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 1–47. DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255  link

Savage, P., Passmore, S., Chiba, G., Currie, T. E., Suzuki, H. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2022). Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution. Current Biology. 32(6): 1395-1402.e8. link

Vardy, T. Moya, C., Placek, C. D., Apicella, C. L., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Klocová, E. K., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Purzycki, B. G., Soler, M., Weigel, J. L., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A., Henrich, J., Lang, M. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2022) The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12:1-2, 18-37, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006292 link

Vardy, T. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2022) Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12:1-2, 79-96, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006290 link

Baimel, A., Apicella, C.L., Atkinson, Q. D., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Kundtová Klocová, E., Lang, M., Lesogorol, C. & Mathew, S., (2022). Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: A cross-cultural investigation. Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12:1-2, 4-17, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006287

 Purzycki, B. G., Willard, A. K., Klocová, E. K., Apicella, C. L., Atkinson, Q. D., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Norenzayan, A., Placek, C., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J., Xygalatas, D., & Ross, C. T. (2022) The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test, Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12:1-2, 38-60, DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006291 link

Wilkins, C., Tremewan, J., Rychert, M., Atkinson, Q. D., Fischer, K., & Forsyth, G. L. (2022). Predictors of voter support for the legalization of recreational cannabis use and supply via a national referendum. International Journal of Drug Policy, 99, 103442.

 Atkinson, Q.D. & Jacquet, J. (2021) Challenging the idea that humans are not designed to solve climate change. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(3):619-630. preprint  link

Beheim, B., Atkinson, Q. D., Bulbulia, J., Gervais, W., Gray, R. D., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Monroe, M. W., Muthukrishna, M., Norenzayan, A., Purzycki, B. G., Shariff, A., Slingerland, E., Spicer, R. & Willard, A. K. (2021). Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature, 595(7866), E29-E34. link

Claessens, S., Kyritsis, T., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2020). Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(24), 13203-13204.

Slingerland, E., Atkinson, Q. D., Ember, C. R., Sheehan, O., Muthukrishna, M., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R. D. (2020). Coding culture: challenges and recommendations for comparative cultural databases. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1-20.

Claessens, S., Fischer, K., Chaudhuri, A., Sibley, C. G., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2020). The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology. Nature Human Behaviour, 4:336–345. Link preprint

Ruck, D. J., Matthews, L. J., Kyritsis, T., Atkinson, Q. D., & Bentley, R. A. (2020). The cultural foundations of modern democracies. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(3), 265-269. doi:10.1038/s41562-019-0769-1 link

Lang, M., Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C. L., Atkinson, Q. D., Bolyanatz, A., Cohen, E., Handley, C., Klocová, E. K., Lesorogol, C., Mathew, S., McNamara, R. A., Moya, C., Placek, C. D., Soler, M., Vardy, T., Weigel, J. L., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A. & Henrich, J. (2019) Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1898), 20190202. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0202

Vardy, T., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2019). Property damage and exposure to other people in distress differentially predict prosocial behavior after a natural disaster. Psychological Science, 30(4), 563-575.

Moravec, J. C., Atkinson, Q. D., Bowern, C., Greenhill, S. J., Jordan, F. M., Ross, R., Gray, R. D., Marsland, S. and Cox, M. P. (2018). Post-Marital Residence Patterns Show Lineage-Specific Evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior. 39(6): 594–601.

Savage, P. E., Cronin, C., Müllensiefen, D., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). Quantitative evaluation of music copyright infringement. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2018) (pp. 61–66).

Tambets, K., Yunusbayev, B., Hudjashov, G., Ilumäe, A., Rootsi, S., Honkola, T., Vesakoski, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Skoglund, P., Kushniarevich, A., Litvinov, S., Reidla, M., Metspalu, E., Saag, L., Rantanen, T., Karmin, M., Parik, J., Zhadanov, S. I., Gubina, M., Damba, L. D., Bermisheva, M., Reisberg, T., Dibirova, K.,Evseeva, I., Nelis, M., Klovins, J., Metspalu, A., Esko, T., Balanovsky, O., Balanovska, E., Khusnutdinova, E. K., Osipova, L. P., Voevoda, M., Villems, R., Kivisild, T., Metspalu, M. (2018). Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic speaking populations. Genome Biology, 19:139. link

 Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Bulbulia, J., Gray, R. D., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). Christianity spread faster in small politically structured societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(8):559-564. link

 Sznycer, D., Xygalatas, D., Agey E., Alami, S., An X., Anayeva K. I., Atkinson, Q. D., Broitman, B. R., Conte, T. J., Flores, C., Fukishima, S., Hitokoto, H., Kharitonov, A. N., Onyishi, C. N., Onyishi, I. E., Romero, P. R., Schrock, J. M., Snodgrass, J. J., Sugiyama, L. S., Takemura, K., Townsend, C., Zhuang, J., Aktipis, C. A., Cronk, L., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2018). Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115(39), 9702-9707. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805016115

Sheehan, O., Watts, J., Gray, R. D., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714558115

Bouckaert, R., Bowern, C. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2:741-749. https://doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0489-3

Sookias, R. B., Passmore, S. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states. Royal Society Open Science, 5 171411. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171411

Purzycki BG, Ross CT, Apicella C, Atkinson Q. D., Cohen E, et al. (2018) Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination. PLOS ONE 13(3): e0193856. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193856

Atkinson, Q. D. (2018). Religion and expanding the cooperative sphere in Kastom and Christian Villages on Tanna, Vanuatu. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 8(2):149-167. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267028

Purzycki, B. G., Henrich, J., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D. & Norenzayan, A. (2018). The Evolution of Religion and Morality Project:  A Synthesis of Ethnographic and Experimental Evidence from Eight Societies. Religion, Brain and Behavior, 8(2):101-132. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2016.1267027

Maurits, L., Forkel, R., Kaiping, G. A. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2017) BEASTling: a software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2. PLoS ONE, 12(8), e0180908.

Botero, C. A., Harmon, L. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2017). The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human culture: a comment on Sloan Wilson et al. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 7(2) 153-155. doi: 10.1080/2153599X.2015.1132249

Purzycki, B. G., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D., Norenzayan, A. & Henrich, J. (2016). Cross-cultural dataset for the Evolution of Religion and Morality Project. Scientific Data. 3:160099. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2016.99  link

Saunders, T., Taylor, A. H. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2016). No evidence that a range of artificial monitoring cues influence online donations to charity in an MTurk sample. Royal Society Open Science, 3:150710. doi: 10.1098/rsos.150710 link

Atkinson, Q. D., Coomber, T., Passmore, S., Greenhill, S. J. & Kushnick, G. (2016) Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands. PLoS ONE, 11(5): e0156340. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156340   link

Matthews, L. J., Passmore, S., Richard, P. M., Gray, R. D., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2016). Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes among Nation States. PLoS ONE, 11(4): e0152979. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152979  link

Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Bulbulia, J. & Gray, R. D. (2016). Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature, 532:228-231. doi:10.1038/nature17159  link

 Ross, R. M. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2016). Cultural differentiation does not entail group-level structure: The case for geographically explicit analysis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39: e30. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1400106X

Watts, J., Bulbulia, J., Gray, R.D., & Atkinson, Q.D. (2016). Clarity and Causality Needed in Claims about Big Gods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39:e1. doi:10.1017/S0140525X14001356   link

Purzycki, B. G., Norenzayan, A., Apicella, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., McNamara, R. A., Willard, A. K., Xygalatas, D. & Henrich, J. (2016). Moralizing Gods, Supernatural Punishment, and the Expansion of Human Sociality. Nature, 530, 327-330. doi:10.1038/nature16980. link

Ross, R. M. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2016). Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter-gatherer groups. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1):47-53. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.08.001

Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Greenhill, S. J., Gnomes-Ng, S., Atkinson, Q. D., Bulbulia, J. & Gray, R. D. (2015). Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices. PLoS ONE, 10(9): e0136783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136783 link

Savage, P. E., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2015). Automatic tune family identification by musical sequence alignment. 16th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2015: 162-168.

Watts, J., Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D., Currie, T. E., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R. D. (2015). Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B.  282: 20142556  doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2556  link

Atkinson, Q. D., Latham, A. & Watts, J. (2015). Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups? Religion, Brain and Behavior. 5(4):266-274. doi:10.1080/2153599X.2014.928359

Long, J., Harré, N. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2015). Social clustering in high school transport choices. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 41:155-165. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2015.01.001

Opie, C., Shultz, S., Atkinson, Q. D., Currie, T. & Mace, R. (2014). Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges main sequence theory of human social evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 111(49): 17414–17419. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415744111

Long, J., Harré, N. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2014). Understanding change in recycling and littering behavior across a school social network. American Journal of Community Psychology. 53(3):462-474. link

Kamilar, J. M. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2014). Cultural assemblages show nested structure in humans and chimpanzees but not orangutans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 111(1):111-115. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1313318110

Opie, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Dunbar, R. I. M., & Shultz, S. (2014). Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate monogamy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (17).

Opie, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Dunbar, R. I. M. & Shultz, S. (2013). Reply to Dixson: Infanticide triggers primate monogamy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110(51):E4938.

Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D., Calude, A., & Meade (2013). Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110(35):E3255.

Opie, C., Atkinson, Q. D., Dunbar, R. I. M. & Shultz, S. (2013). Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110(33):13328-13332.  doi: 10.1073/pnas.1307903110

Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D., Calude, A., & Meade (2013). Ultra-conserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 110(21):8471–8476. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218726110.

 Bulbulia, J. A., Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D. & Gray, R. D. (2013). First shots fired for the phylogenetic revolution in religious studies: A commentary on David Sloan Wilson. Cliodynamics, 4(1):128-133.

Mullins, D. A., Whitehouse, H. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2013). The role of writing and recordkeeping in the cultural evolution of human cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 90:S141-S151. doi:10.1073/pnas.1218726110

 Atkinson, Q.D. (2013) The descent of words. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 110(11):4159-4160. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1300397110 

Ross, R. M., Greenhill, S. J. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2013). Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 280(1756) doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.3065

Bowern, C. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Computational Phylogenetics and the Internal Structure of Pama-Nyungan. Language, 88(4):817-845.

Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Accent as social sonar. Current Anthropology, 53(5):605-606.

Opie, C. Atkinson, Q. D. & Shultz, S. (2012). The evolutionary history of primate mating systems, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 5(5):458-461.

Bouckaert, R., Lemey, P., Dunn, M., Greenhill, S. J., Alekseyenko, A. V., Drummond, A. J., Gray, R. D., Suchard, M. A., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science, 337:957-960. DOI: 10.1126/science.337.6097.989-b

Hoverd, W., Sibley C. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Group size and the trajectory of religious identification. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 51(2):286–303.

Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Response to Comments on “Phonemic Diversity Supports Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”. Science, 335, 1042. DOI: 10.1126/science.1215788

Atkinson, Q. D. (2012). Response to Comments on “Phonemic Diversity Supports Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”. Science, 335, 657. DOI: 10.1126/science.1210005.

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.

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. pdf

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.

Book Chapters

Atkinson, Q. D. & Matthews, L. J. (In press). Cultural evolution and the economic wealth of nations. In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Claessens, S., Chaurdhuri, A., Sibley, C. G. & Atkinson, Q. D. (2022). The evolutionary basis of political ideology. In C. G. Sibley & D. Osbourne (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Fischer, K., Atkinson, Q. D., & Chaudhuri, A. (2021). Experiments in political psychology. In A. Chaudhuri (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Atkinson, Q.D., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R.D. (2019). Did ritualized human sacrifice help build and sustain social inequality? In J. Slone, & W. McCorkle Jr.(Eds.), The cognitive science of religion: A methodological introduction to key empirical studies (pp. 239-248). London: Bloomsbury.

Whitehouse, H., Mazzucato, C., Hodder, I. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2014). Modes of religiosity and the evolution of social complexity at Çatalhöyük. Pages 134-158. In Vital Matters – Religion in the Organization and Transformation of a Neolithic Society. Ed. Ian Hodder. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Shultz, S., Opie, C., Nelson, E., Atkinson, Q.D., Dunbar, R.I.M. (2014). Evolution of primate social systems: implications for hominin social evolution. Pages 317-332. In Lucy to Language: Benchmark Papers, Eds. R.I.M. Dunbar, C. Gamble and J.A.J. Gowlett. Oxford University Press (Oxford).

Bulbulia, J., Atkinson, Q. D., Gray, R. D. & Greenhill, S. J. (2013). Why Do Religious Cultures Evolve Slowly? Pages 197-211. In Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies, Eds. I. Czachesz and R. Uro. Equinox Publishing (Sheffield).

Bulbulia, J., Geertz, A. W., Atkinson, Q. D., Cohen, E., Evans, N., Francois, P., Gintis, H., Gray, R. D., Henrich, J., Jordan, F., Norenzayan, A., Richerson, P. J., Slingerland, E., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Widlok, T., Wilson, D. S. (2013) The Cultural Evolution of Religion. Pages 381-404 in Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion, Eds. P. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01975-0.

Gray, R. D., Greenhill, S. J., and Atkinson, Q. D. (2013) Phylogenetic models of language change: Three new questions. Pages 285-302 in Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion, Eds. P. Richerson and M. H. Christiansen. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, J. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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).

Book

Harré, N. and Atkinson, Q. D. (Eds.) (2007). Carbon Neutral by 2020: How New Zealanders can tackle climate change. Craig Potton Publishing (Nelson, New Zealand).

Other

Gardner, Paul; Addis, Donna Rose; Allen, Martin; Anderson, Barbara; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Bertler, Nancy; Bradley, Ashton; Bradley, Brendon; Cox, Murray P.; Drummond, Alexei; Fineran, Peter; Goldstone, David; Greenberg, Noam; Hay, Jennifer; Hodgkiss, Justin; Jacobsen, Jessie; Ru, Eric Le; Mace, Peter; Mayhew, Dillon; McKay, Rob; Montelle, Clemency; Moreham, Nicole; Muthukumaraswamy, Suresh; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Palmer, Suetonia; Patrick, Wayne M.; Poole, Anthony M.; Radford, Craig; Rattenbury, Nicholas J.; Reynolds, John N.J.; Shears, Nicholas; Shepherd, Lara; Sperry, Jonathan; Stanley, Elizabeth; Stouffer, Daniel B.; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Wanhalla, Angela; Willmott, Geoff; Woodfield, Tim (2014): NATIONAL STATEMENT OF SCIENCE INVESTMENT DRAFT: Response from Rutherford Discovery Fellowship recipients (2010-2013). figshare.
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Atkinson, Q. D. (2006). From Species to Languages: a phylogenetic approach to human prehistory. PhD thesis, University of Auckland.