Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill
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  • Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals (April 13, 2011)
  • Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes (February 28, 2011)
  • Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific (October 13, 2010)
  • On the shape and fabric of human history (September 1, 2010)
  • Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits (September 1, 2010)
  • The shape and tempo of language evolution (April 7, 2010)
  • How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? (March 9, 2010)
  • Darwin, language, and two great Pacific voyages (November 2, 2009)
  • Austronesian language phylogenies: Myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods (July 17, 2009)
  • Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? (March 18, 2009)
  • Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies (March 4, 2009)
  • Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement (January 22, 2009)
  • Languages evolve in punctuational bursts (January 31, 2008)
  • The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinizing Culture (with phylogenies) (December 10, 2007)
  • Testing Population Dispersal Hypotheses: Pacific Settlement, Phylogenetic Trees, and Austronesian Languages (December 29, 2005)
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    Email me: simon(at)simon(dot)net(dot)nz

    I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. Before that I was senior scientist in the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language at Australian National University.

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