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We have a new paper out in Nature: Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals.

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We have a new paper out in Nature: Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Listen to the Nature Podcast here, and see News & Views article by Jared Diamond, or the coverage at Nature News.

We have a new paper out in Science: Language Phylogenies Reveal Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement.

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• Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. - Currie et al2010
• On the shape and fabric of human history - Gray et al2010
• Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits - Currie et al2010 b
• The shape and tempo of language evolution - Greenhill et al2010b
• How Accurate and Robust Are the Phylogenetic Estimates of Austronesian Language Relationships? - Greenhill et al2010a
• Austronesian language phylogenies: myths and misconceptions about Bayesian computational methods - Greenhill and Gray2009
• Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? - Greenhill et al2009
• Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies - Jordan et al2009
• Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement - Gray et al2009
• The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics - Greenhill et al2008
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