Russell Gray's Research Lab

Gray Lab Publications:

Topics:Austronesian Phylogenetics Fiona Jordan Quentin Atkinson Indo-european Neighbornet Simon Greenhill Cultural Evolution Horizontal Transmission Network Methods Genetics Language Evolution Mtdna Russell Gray Robert Ross Bantu

Russell Gray:

Greenhill SJ, Drummond AJ, & Gray RD (2010) How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? PLoS ONE 5(3): e9573.
Greenhill SJ, Atkinson QD, Meade A, & Gray RD. (2010) The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B.
Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, & Mace R (2010). Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 365:3903-3912
Gray RD, Bryant D, & Greenhill SJ (2010) On the shape and fabric of human history. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 365:3923-3933
Currie TE, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Hasegawa T, & Mace R (2010) Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature, 467:801-804.
Gray, R.D., Drummond, A.J., & Greenhill, S.J. (2009) Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science, 323: 479-483.
Jordan, F.M., Gray, R.D., Greenhill, S.J., & Mace, R. (2009) Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:1957-1964.
Greenhill, S.J., Currie, T.E., & Gray, R.D. (2009). Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences.
Greenhill, S.J. & Gray, R.D. (2009) Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods. In Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust. A. Adelaar & A. Pawley (Eds). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Atkinson, Q.D., Gray, R.D., 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.
Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Gray, RD, Greenhill, SJ, & Ross, RM (2007). The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory, 2(4)
Holden, C.J. & Gray, R.D. (in press). Rapid radiation, borrowing and dialect continua in the Bantu languages. In: Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Nicholls, G.K. & Gray, R.D. (2006). Quantifying uncertainty in a stochastic dollo model of vocabulary evolution. In: Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 161-172.
Atkinson, Q.D. & Gray, R.D. (2006). How old is the Indo-European language family? Progress or more moths to the flame? In: Phylogenetic Methods and the Prehistory of Languages. Cambridge: The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 91-109.
Greenhill, S. J. & Gray, R.D. (2005). Testing Population Dispersal Hypotheses: Pacific Settlement, Phylogenetic Trees, and Austronesian Languages. In: The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: Phylogenetic Approaches. Editors: R. Mace, C. Holden, & S. Shennan. Publisher: UCL Press.
Gray, R.D. (2005) Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots. Science, 209: 307-308.
Atkinson, Q., Nicholls, G., Welch, D., Gray, R.D. (2005) FROM WORDS TO DATES: WATER INTO WINE, MATHEMAGIC OR PHYLOGENETIC INFERENCE? Transactions of the Philological Society Volume 103:2 (2005) 193–219
Bryant, D., Filimon, F. and Gray, R. (2005) Untangling our past: Languages, Trees, Splits and Networks. In: The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: Phylogenetic Approaches. Editors: R. Mace, C. Holden, S. Shennan. Publisher: UCL Press, pp. 69-85.
Atkinson, Q. and Gray, R.D. (2005). Curious parallels and curious connections: Phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics. Systematic Biology, 54(4), 513-526.
Gray, R.D. & Atkinson, Q.D. (2003): Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature, 426, 435-439.
Gray, R. D., Heaney, M., & Fairhall, S. (2003). Evolutionary psychology and the challenge of adaptive explanation. In J. Fitness & K. Sterelny (Eds.), From Mating to Mentality (pp. 247-268).
Gray, R.D. & F.M. Jordan. (2000) - Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature, 405, 1052-1055.