List of works - Quentin Atkinson

Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups?

BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2.

scientific article published on 10 August 2017

Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa

scientific article

Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation

Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

scientific article

Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

scientific article

Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

scholarly article by Claire Bowern & Quentin D. Atkinson published 2012 in Language

Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour

scientific article published in 2022

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

scientific article

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Crowdsourcing and phylogenetic modelling reveal parrot tool use is not rare

Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands

scientific article

Cultural assemblages show nested structure in humans and chimpanzees but not orangutans

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2014)

Curious parallels and curious connections--phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics

scientific article

Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Erratum to: Understanding Change in Recycling and Littering Behavior Across a School Social Network

scientific article published in June 2015

Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

article

Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history

scientific article published in Nature

From species to languages : a phylogenetic approach to human prehistory ⬇️

2006 doctoral thesis by Quentin Douglas Atkinson at University of Auckland

From words to dates: water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference?

scholarly article by Quentin D. Atkinson et al published August 2005 in Transactions of the Philological Society

Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations

article

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification

article

Interdisciplinary views on Molecular Anthropology in the Genomic Era

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes ⬇️

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin

scientific article (publication date: 27 November 2003)

Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

scientific article

Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations

scholarly article by Quentin D. Atkinson published January 2011 in Linguistic Typology

Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

scientific article (publication date: 13 August 2013)

Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

scientific article

Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination.

scientific article published on 7 March 2018

Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

scientific article

Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

No evidence that a range of artificial monitoring cues influence online donations to charity in an MTurk sample

scientific article

Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on April 15, 2011

Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution

scientific article

Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe ⬇️

scientific article published on February 6, 2013

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Property Damage and Exposure to Other People in Distress Differentially Predict Prosocial Behavior After a Natural Disaster

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Religion and expanding the cooperative sphere in Kastom and Christian villages on Tanna, Vanuatu

scholarly article by Quentin D. Atkinson published 24 March 2017 in Religion, brain & behavior

Reply to Dixson: Infanticide triggers primate monogamy.

scientific article published on December 2013

Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate. monogamy

scientific article published on April 2014

Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided

scientific article published on August 2013

Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

scientific article published in 2022

Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes among Nation States

scientific article

Social clustering in high school transport choices

Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates ⬇️

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

The Cultural Evolution of Religion

The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior

The cultural foundations of modern democracies

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

The cultural morphospace of ritual form

2011 scientific article

The descent of words ⬇️

scientific article published on February 15, 2013

The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies

scholarly article by Benjamin Grant Purzycki et al published 23 March 2017 in Religion, brain & behavior

The evolutionary history of primate mating systems

scientific article

The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia

article

The potential for genetic adaptations to language

scientific article

The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human culture

article

The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies

scientific article published in 2022

The role of writing and recordkeeping in the cultural evolution of human cooperation

The shape and tempo of language evolution.

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

scientific article

Understanding change in recycling and littering behavior across a school social network.

scientific article published in June 2014

What can Examining the Psychology of Nationalism Tell Us About Our Prospects for Aiming at the Cosmopolitan Vision?

mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory

scientific article published on 18 December 2007

List of works by Quentin Atkinson

Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups?

BEASTling: A software tool for linguistic phylogenetics using BEAST 2.

Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa

Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation

Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy

Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour

Cross-cultural dataset for the evolution of religion and morality project

Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame

Crowdsourcing and phylogenetic modelling reveal parrot tool use is not rare

Cultural and Environmental Predictors of Pre-European Deforestation on Pacific Islands

Cultural assemblages show nested structure in humans and chimpanzees but not orangutans

Curious parallels and curious connections--phylogenetic thinking in biology and historical linguistics

Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states.

Erratum to: Understanding Change in Recycling and Littering Behavior Across a School Social Network

Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter–gatherer groups

Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history

From species to languages : a phylogenetic approach to human prehistory ⬇️

From words to dates: water into wine, mathemagic or phylogenetic inference?

Genes reveal traces of common recent demographic history for most of the Uralic-speaking populations

Gods are watching and so what? Moralistic supernatural punishment across 15 cultures

Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification

Interdisciplinary views on Molecular Anthropology in the Genomic Era

Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes ⬇️

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin

Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

Linking spatial patterns of language variation to ancient demography and population migrations

Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination.

Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük

Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies

No evidence that a range of artificial monitoring cues influence online donations to charity in an MTurk sample

Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa ⬇️

Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution

Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe ⬇️

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Property Damage and Exposure to Other People in Distress Differentially Predict Prosocial Behavior After a Natural Disaster

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

Religion and expanding the cooperative sphere in Kastom and Christian villages on Tanna, Vanuatu

Reply to Dixson: Infanticide triggers primate monogamy.

Reply to Lukas and Clutton-Brock: Infanticide still drives primate. monogamy

Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided

Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

Shared Cultural History as a Predictor of Political and Economic Changes among Nation States

Social clustering in high school transport choices

Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates ⬇️

The Cultural Evolution of Religion

The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior

The cultural foundations of modern democracies

The cultural morphospace of ritual form

The descent of words ⬇️

The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology

The evolution of religion and morality: a synthesis of ethnographic and experimental evidence from eight societies

The evolutionary history of primate mating systems

The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia

The potential for genetic adaptations to language

The promise and limits of eco-evolutionary studies of human culture

The religiosity gender gap in 14 diverse societies

The role of writing and recordkeeping in the cultural evolution of human cooperation

The shape and tempo of language evolution.

Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

Understanding change in recycling and littering behavior across a school social network.

What can Examining the Psychology of Nationalism Tell Us About Our Prospects for Aiming at the Cosmopolitan Vision?

mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory