List of works - Russell Gray

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

A genome-wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein-coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows

scientific article

An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2012)

An investigation into the cognition behind spontaneous string pulling in New Caledonian crows

scientific article

Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact

scientific article published on 13 August 2009

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows: Ruling out spatial analogies and sampling error.

scientific article published on July 2009

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

Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows

scientific article published on 21 April 2010

Context-dependent tool use in New Caledonian crows.

scientific article published on 7 September 2011

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

article

Cultural macroevolution matters

scientific article

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

scientific article

D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility

scientific article published on 19 October 2019

Design complexity and strength of laterality are correlated in New Caledonian crows' pandanus tool manufacture

scientific article published in May 2006

Design, constraint and construction: essays and experiments on evolution and foraging

1990 doctoral thesis by Russell David Gray at University of Auckland

Direct observations of pandanus-tool manufacture and use by a New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides).

scientific article

Diversification and cumulative evolution in New Caledonian crow tool manufacture

scientific article published in April 2003

Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools?

scientific article published on 17 October 2007

Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?

scientific article published on 18 March 2009

Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages?

scientific article

Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Evolution. Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots

scientific article

Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

scientific article

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

scientific article

Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides).

scientific article published on 17 January 2008

Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture

scientific article published on 04 June 2018

How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture. ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 August 2015

How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships?

scientific article

Innovative pandanus-tool folding by New Caledonian crows

article

Investigating animal cognition with the Aesop's Fable paradigm: Current understanding and future directions

scientific article

Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition?

scientific article published on 23 September 2014

Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Keas Perform Similarly to Chimpanzees and Elephants when Solving Collaborative Tasks

scientific article

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

scientific article published on April 12, 2011

Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion

scientific article

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)

Laterality in tool manufacture by crows

scientific article published in Nature

Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

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

scientific article

Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

Modifications to the Aesop's Fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution ⬇️

article

New Caledonian Crows Behave Optimistically after Using Tools

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

New Caledonian Crows Use Mental Representations to Solve Metatool Problems

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types

scientific article

New Caledonian crows rapidly solve a collaborative problem without cooperative cognition

scientific article

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

scientific article

No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions.

scientific article published in August 2015

Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention

article by Alex H Taylor et al published 22 July 2014 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not "One Cognition"

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

On the shape and fabric of human history

scientific article published on December 2010

Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows

scientific article published on April 2007

Performance in Object-Choice Aesop's Fable Tasks Are Influenced by Object Biases in New Caledonian Crows but not in Human Children

scientific article

Perineuronal satellite neuroglia in the telencephalon of New Caledonian crows and other Passeriformes: evidence of satellite glial cells in the central nervous system of healthy birds?

scientific article published on 25 July 2013

Population genetic structure and colonisation history of the tool-using New Caledonian crow

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

article

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Rapid evolutionary divergences in reef fishes of the family Acanthuridae (Perciformes: Teleostei).

scientific article published in February 2003

Reasoning by exclusion in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) cannot be explained by avoidance of empty containers

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Reply to Boogert et al.: The devil is unlikely to be in association or distraction.

scientific article published in January 2013

Reply to Dymond et al.: Clear evidence of habituation counters counterbalancing ⬇️

scientific article published on January 29, 2013

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

scientific article published in Nature

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

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

scientific article

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

scientific article published in August 2010

Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian crows.

scientific article

The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics

scientific article

The Cultural Evolution of Religion

The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

The Potential of Automatic Word Comparison for Historical Linguistics

scientific article

The crafting of hook tools by wild New Caledonian crows

scientific article published in February 2004

The ecology of religious beliefs

scientific article

The global geography of human subsistence

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

The right tool for the job: what strategies do wild New Caledonian crows use?

scientific article published on 29 August 2006

Tool-making New Caledonian crows have large associative brain areas

scientific article published on 9 March 2010

Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages

scientific article

Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of Linguistic Diversity

article

Universal typological dependencies should be detectable in the history of language families

Using the Aesop's fable paradigm to investigate causal understanding of water displacement by New Caledonian crows

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

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 Russell Gray

A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family.

A genome-wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein-coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows

Adaptive bill morphology for enhanced tool manipulation in New Caledonian crows

An end to insight? New Caledonian crows can spontaneously solve problems without planning their actions ⬇️

An investigation into the cognition behind spontaneous string pulling in New Caledonian crows

Animal cognition: Aesop's fable flies from fiction to fact

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

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

Causal reasoning in New Caledonian crows: Ruling out spatial analogies and sampling error.

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

Complex cognition and behavioural innovation in New Caledonian crows

Context-dependent tool use in New Caledonian crows.

Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

Cultural macroevolution matters

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

D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity

Decision-making flexibility in New Caledonian crows, young children and adult humans in a multi-dimensional tool-use task

Delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and young children: influence of reward type and visibility

Design complexity and strength of laterality are correlated in New Caledonian crows' pandanus tool manufacture

Design, constraint and construction: essays and experiments on evolution and foraging

Direct observations of pandanus-tool manufacture and use by a New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides).

Diversification and cumulative evolution in New Caledonian crow tool manufacture

Do wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) attend to the functional properties of their tools?

Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies?

Does lateral transmission obscure inheritance in hunter-gatherer languages?

Drivers of geographical patterns of North American language diversity

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

Evolution. Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots

Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

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

Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition

Extraordinary large brains in tool-using New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides).

Hindcasting global population densities reveals forces enabling the origin of agriculture

How New Caledonian crows solve novel foraging problems and what it means for cumulative culture. ⬇️

How accurate and robust are the phylogenetic estimates of Austronesian language relationships?

Innovative pandanus-tool folding by New Caledonian crows

Investigating animal cognition with the Aesop's Fable paradigm: Current understanding and future directions

Is there a link between the crafting of tools and the evolution of cognition?

Kea show no evidence of inequity aversion

Keas Perform Similarly to Chimpanzees and Elephants when Solving Collaborative Tasks

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

Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion

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

Laterality in tool manufacture by crows

Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features

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

Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies

Modifications to the Aesop's Fable paradigm change New Caledonian crow performances

Networks uncover hidden lexical borrowing in Indo-European language evolution ⬇️

New Caledonian Crows Behave Optimistically after Using Tools

New Caledonian Crows Use Mental Representations to Solve Metatool Problems

New Caledonian crows infer the weight of objects from observing their movements in a breeze

New Caledonian crows learn the functional properties of novel tool types

New Caledonian crows rapidly solve a collaborative problem without cooperative cognition

New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents

No conclusive evidence that corvids can create novel causal interventions.

Of babies and birds: complex tool behaviours are not sufficient for the evolution of the ability to create a novel causal intervention

Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not "One Cognition"

On the shape and fabric of human history

Parallel tool industries in New Caledonian crows

Performance in Object-Choice Aesop's Fable Tasks Are Influenced by Object Biases in New Caledonian Crows but not in Human Children

Perineuronal satellite neuroglia in the telencephalon of New Caledonian crows and other Passeriformes: evidence of satellite glial cells in the central nervous system of healthy birds?

Population genetic structure and colonisation history of the tool-using New Caledonian crow

Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

Process-based modelling shows how climate and demography shape language diversity

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

Rapid evolutionary divergences in reef fishes of the family Acanthuridae (Perciformes: Teleostei).

Reasoning by exclusion in New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) cannot be explained by avoidance of empty containers

Reply to Boogert et al.: The devil is unlikely to be in association or distraction.

Reply to Dymond et al.: Clear evidence of habituation counters counterbalancing ⬇️

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

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

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

Social learning in New Caledonian crows

Spontaneous metatool use by New Caledonian crows.

The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: from bioinformatics to lexomics