Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

The island biogeography of languages

(2012) Michael C. Gavin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas

(2012) L. J. Gorenflo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geographic axes and the persistence of cultural diversity

(2012) D. D. Laitin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

THE EVOLUTION OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC DIVERSITY

(2011) THOMAS E. CURRIE et al.   ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

(2011) Michael Dunn et al.   NATURE

Regression analysis of spatial data

(2010) Colin M. Beale et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

(2010) Thomas E. Currie et al.   NATURE

A stochastic, evolutionary model for range shifts and richness on tropical elevational gradients under Quaternary glacial cycles

(2010) R. K. Colwell et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure

(2010) Gary Lupyan et al.   PLoS One

Patterns and causes of species richness: a general simulation model for macroecology

(2009) Nicholas J. Gotelli et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The seven deadly sins of comparative analysis

(2009) R. P. FRECKLETON   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups

(2009) T. E. Currie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

(2009) R. D. Gray et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological influences on human behavioural diversity: a review of recent findings

(2009) Daniel Nettle   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A parasite-driven wedge: infectious diseases may explain language and other biodiversity

(2008) Corey L. Fincher et al.   OIKOS

Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

(2008) Q. D. Atkinson et al.   SCIENCE