publications Simon J. Greenhill's Publications

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  1. Greenhill SJ, Drummond AJ, & Gray RD (2010) How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? PLoS ONE 5(3): e9573.

  2. Greenhill SJ, & Gray RD (2009) Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages. New Zealand Science Review, 66: 97-101.

  3. 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 (Pp 375-397). A. Adelaar & A. Pawley (Eds). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

  4. Greenhill, S.J., Currie, T.E., & Gray, R.D. (2009) Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276: 2299-2306.

  5. 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.

  6. Gray, R.D., Drummond, A.J., & Greenhill, S.J. (2009) Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement. Science, 323: 479-483.

  7. Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R, & Gray, R.D. (2008) The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

  8. Atkinson, Q.D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S.J., & Pagel, M. (2008) Parsing the Evolution of Language (Letter). Science 320 (5875), 446a.

  9. Atkinson, Q.D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S.J., & Pagel, M. (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science, 319, 588.

  10. Gray, R.D., Greenhill, S.J., & Ross, R.M. (2007) The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies). Biological Theory, 2(4): 360-375.

  11. 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.