Publications of Quentin Douglas Atkinson

Ross, R. M.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Folktale transmission in the Arctic provides evidence for high bandwidth social learning among hunter-gatherer groups. Evolution and Human Behavior 37 (1), pp. 48 - 53 (2016)

Purzycki, B. G.; Apicella, C.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Cohen, E.; McNamara, R. A.; Willard, A. K.; Xygalatas, D.; Norenzaya, A.; Henrich, J.: Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality. Nature 530 (7590), pp. 327 - 330 (2016)

Watts, J.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 39 (January), e27 (2016)

Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Greenhill, S. J.; Gomes-Ng, S.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Pulotu: Database of Austronesian supernatural beliefs and practices. PLoS One 10 (9), e0136783 (2015)

Watts, J.; Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Currie, T. E.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1804), 20142556 (2015)

Ross, R. M.; Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1756), 20123065 (2013)

Bouckaert, R.; Lemey, P.; Dunn , M. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Alekseyenko, A. V.; Drummond, A. J.; Gray, R. D.; Suchard, M. A.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family. Science 337 (6097), pp. 957 - 960 (2012)

Gray, R. D.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Greenhill, S. J.: Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 366 (1567), pp. 1090 - 1100 (2011)

Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Meade, A.; Gray, R. D.: The shape and tempo of language evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1693), pp. 2443 - 2450 (2010)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.; Drummond, A. J.: Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276 (1655), pp. 367 - 373 (2009)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Meade, A.; Venditti, C.; Greenhill, S. J.; Pagel, M.: Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science Magazine 319 (5863), p. 588 - 588 (2008)

Watts, J.; Sheehan, O.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Bulbulia, J.; Gray, R. D.: Did ritualized human sacrifice help build and sustain social inequality? In: The cognitive science of religion: A methodological introduction to key empirical studies, pp. 239 - 248 (Eds. Slone, J.; McCorkle Jr., W.). Bloomsbury, London (2019)

Bulbulia, J.; Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.: Why do religious cultures evolve slowly? The cultural evolution of cooperative calling and the historical study of religions. In: Mind, morality and magic: cognitive science approaches in biblical studies, pp. 197 - 212 (Eds. Czachesz, I.; Uro, R.). Acumen, Durham (2013)

Gray, R. D.; Greenhill, S. J.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Phylogenetic models of language change: three new questions. In: Cultural evolution: Society, technology, language, and religion. Strüngmann Forum Reports, vol. 12, pp. 285 - 302 (Eds. Richerson, P. J.; Christiansen, M. H.). MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass (2013)

Atkinson, Q. D.; Gray, R. D.: Are accurate dates an intractable problem for historical linguistics? In: Mapping Our Ancestors: phylogenetic approaches in anthropology and prehistory, pp. 269 - 296 (Ed. Lipo, C. P.). Aldine Transaction, New Brunswick (2006)

Claessens, S.; Kyritsis, T.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Revised analysis shows relational mobility predicts sacrificial behavior in Footbridge but not Switch or Loop trolley problems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117, pp. 13203 - 13204 (2020)

Claessens, S.; Sibley, C. G.; Chaudhuri, A.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Cooperative phenotype predicts political ideology eighteen months later. PsyArXiv Preprint, rqvke (2023)

Kyritsis, T.; Matthews, L. J.; Welch, D.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Shared cultural ancestry predicts the global diffusion of democracy. Evolutionary Human Sciences 4, e42 (2022)

Kelly, D.; Claessens, S.; Sibley, C. G.; Chaudhuri, A.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour. PsyArXiv Preprints, qu7v4 (2021)

Claessens, S.; Sibley, C.; Chaudhuri, A.; Atkinson, Q. D.: Cooperative phenotype predicts economic conservatism, policy views, and political party support. PsyArXiv Preprints, t7rqb (2020)