Researcher Portfolio
Gray, Russell D.
COOL, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society, External Organizations, Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
Researcher Profile
Position: Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
Position: External Organizations
Position: Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Position: COOL, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Additional IDs: ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9858-0191
Researcher ID: https://pure.mpg.de/cone/persons/resource/persons138255
Publications
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: Shcherbakova, O., Blasi, D. E., Gast, V., Skirgård, H., Gray, R. D., & Greenhill, S. J. (2024). The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom. Scientific Reports, 14: 7259. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-51542-5. [PubMan] : Dunn, R. R., Kirby, k, K. R., Bowern, C., Ember, C. R., Gray, R. D., McCarter, J., Kavanagh, P. H., Trautwein, M., Nichols, L. M., Gavin, M. C., & Botero, C. (2024). Climate, climate change and the global diversity of human houses. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6: e24, pp. 1-55. doi:10.1017/ehs.2024.5. [PubMan] : King, B., Greenhill, S. J., Reid, L. A., Ross, M., Walworth, M., & Gray, R. D. (2024). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports a rapid migration of Malayo-Polynesian languages. Scientific Reports, 14(1): 14967. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-65810-x. [PubMan] : Chira, A.-M., Gray, R. D., & Botero, C. A. (2024). Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6: e5, pp. 1-16. doi:10.1017/ehs.2023.34. [PubMan] : Miller, R., Davies, J. R., Schiestl, M., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Gray, R. D., Taylor, A. H., & Clayton, N. S. (2023). Social influences on delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and Eurasian jays. PLoS One, 18(12): e0289197. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0289197. [PubMan] : Miller, R., Davies, J. R., Schiestl, M., Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Gray, R. D., Taylor, A. H., & Clayton, N. S. (2023). Social influences on delayed gratification in New Caledonian crows and Eurasian jays. PLoS One, 18(12): e0289197. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0289197. [PubMan] : Shcherbakova, O., Michaelis, S. M., Haynie, H. J., Passmore, S., Gast, V., Gray, R. D., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., & Skirgård, H. (2023). Societies of strangers do not speak less complex languages. Science Advances, 9(33): eadf7704. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adf7704. [PubMan] : Heggarty, P., Anderson, C., Scarborough, M., King, B., Bouckaert, R., Jocz, L., Kümmel, M. J., Jügel, T., Irslinger, B., Pooth, R., Liljegren, H., Strand, R. F., Haig, G., Macák, M., Kim, R. I., Anonby, E., Pronk, T., Belyaev, O., Dewey-Findell, T. K., Boutilier, M., Freiberg, C., Tegethoff, R., Serangeli, M., Liosis, N., Stroński, K., Schulte, K., Gupta, G. K., Haak, W., Krause, J., Atkinson, Q. D., Greenhill, S. J., Kühnert, D., & Gray, R. D. (2023). Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages. Science, 381(6656): eabg0818. doi:10.1126/science.abg0818. [PubMan] : Shcherbakova, O., Gast, V., Blasi, D. E., Skirgård, H., Gray, R. D., & Greenhill, S. J. (2023). A quantitative global test of the complexity trade-off hypothesis: The case of nominal and verbal grammatical marking. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(s1), 155-167. doi:10.1515/lingvan-2021-0011. [PubMan] : Skirgård, H., Haynie, H. J., Blasi, D. E., Hammarström, H., Collins, J., Latarche, J. J., Lesage, J., Weber, T., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Passmore, S., Chira, A.-M., Maurits, L., Dinnage, R., Dunn, M., Reesink, G., Singer, R., Bowern, C., Epps, P., Hill, J., Vesakoski, O., Robbeets, M., Abbas, N. K., Auer, D., Bakker, N. A., Barbos, G., Borges, R. D., Danielsen, S., Dorenbusch, L., Dorn, E., Elliott, J., Falcone, G., Fischer, J., Ghanggo Ate, Y., Gibson, H., Göbel, H.-P., Goodall, J. A., Gruner, V., Harvey, A., Hayes, R., Heer, L., Herrera Miranda, R. E., Hübler, N., Huntington-Rainey, B., Ivani, J. K., Johns, M., Just, E., Kashima, E., Kipf, C., Klingenberg, J. V., König, N., Koti, A., Kowalik, R. G., Krasnoukhova, O., Lindvall, N. L., Lorenzen, M., Lutzenberger, H., Martins, T. R., Mata German, C., van der Meer, S., Montoya Samamé, J., Müller, M., Muradoglu, S., Neely, K., Nickel, J., Norvik, M., Oluoch, C. A., Peacock, J., Pearey, I. O., Peck, N., Petit, S., Pieper, S., Poblete, M., Prestipino, D., Raabe, L., Raja, A., Reimringer, J., Rey, S. C., Rizaew, J., Ruppert, E., Salmon, K., Sammet, J., Schembri, R., Schlabbach, L., Schmidt, F. W., Skilton, A., Smith, W. D., de Sousa, H., Sverredal, K., Valle, D., Vera, J., Voß, J., Witte, T., Wu, H., Yam, S., Ye, J., Yong, M., Yuditha, T., Zariquiey, R., Forkel, R., Evans, N., Levinson, S. C., Haspelmath, M., Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D., & Gray, R. D. (2023). Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances, 9: eadg6175. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adg6175. [PubMan] : Zariquiey, R., Vera, J., Greenhill, S. J., Valenzuela, P., Gray, R. D., & List, J.-M. (2023). Untangling the evolution of body-part terminology in Pano: conservative versus innovative traits in body-part lexicalization. Interface Focus, 13(1): 20220053. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2022.0053. [PubMan] : Greenhill, S. J., Haynie, H. J., Ross, R. M., Chira, A.-M., List, J.-M., Campbell, L., Botero, C. A., & Gray, R. D. (2023). A recent northern origin for the Uto-Aztecan family. Language, 99(1), 81-107. [PubMan] : Sheehan, O., Watts, J., Gray, R. D., Bulbulia, J., Claessens, S., Ringen, E. J., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2023). Coevolution of religious and political authority in Austronesian societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 38-45. doi:10.1038/s41562-022-01471-y. [PubMan] : Haynie, H. J., Blasi, D., Skirgård, H., Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D., & Gray, R. D. (2023). Grambank’s typological advances support computational research on diverse languages. In L. Beinborn, K. Goswami, S. Muradoğlu, A. Sorokin, R. Kumar, A. Scherbakov, E. M. Ponti, R. Cotterell, & E. Vylomova (Eds. ), The 5th workshop on research in computational linguistic typology and multilingual NLP: proceedings of the workshop (pp. 147-149). Stroudsburg: Association for Computational Linguistics. [PubMan] : Barbieri, C., Blasi, D. E., Arango-Isaza, E., Sotiropoulos, A. G., Hammerström, H., Wichmann, S., Greenhill, S. J., Gray, R. D., Forkel, R., Bickel, B., & Shimizu, K. K. (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(47): e2122084119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2122084119. [PubMan] : Koile, E., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., Bouckaert, R., & Gray, R. D. (2022). Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32): e21128531. doi:10.1073/pnas.2112853119. [PubMan] : List, J.-M., Forkel, R., Greenhill, S. J., Rzymski, C., Englisch, J., & Gray, R. D. (2022). Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features. Scientific Data, 9: 316. doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01432-0. [PubMan] : Shcherbakova, O., Michaelis, S. M., Haynie, H. J., Greenhill, S. J., Blasi, D. E., Gray, R. D., Gast, V., & Skirgård, H. (2022). Grammatical complexity is only weakly influenced by the sociolinguistic envornment. In A. Ravignani, R. Asano, D. Valente, F. Ferretti, S. Hartmann, M. Hayashi, Y. Jadoul, M. Martins, Y. Oseki, E. D. Rodrigues, O. Vasileva, & S. Wacewicz (Eds. ), The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) (pp. 669-671). 2666-917X: Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE). doi:10.17617/2.3398549. [PubMan] : Tresoldi, T., Rzymski, C., Forkel, R., Greenhill, S. J., List, J.-M., & Gray, R. D. (2022). Managing historical linguistic data for computational phylogenetics and computer-assisted language comparison. In A. L. Berez-Kroeker, B. McDonnel, & E. Koller (Eds. ), The open handbook of linguistic data management (pp. 345-354). Massachusetts: The MIT Press. [PubMan] : Núñez, R. E., d'Errico, F., Gray, R. D., & Bender, A. (2021). The perception of quantity ain't number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44: e199. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21001023. [PubMan] : Haynie, H. J., Kavanagh, P. H., Jordan, F. M., Ember, C. R., Gray, R. D., Greenhill, S. J., Kirby, K., Kushnick, G., Low, B. S., Tuff, T., Vilela, B., Botero, C. A., & Gavin, M. C. (2021). Pathways to social inequality. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3: e35. doi:10.1017/ehs.2021.32. [PubMan] : Evans, C. L., Greenhill, S. J., Watts, J., List, J.-M., Botero, C. A., Gray, R. D., & Kirby, K. (2021). The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 376(1828): 2020.0056, pp. 1-12. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0056. [PubMan] : Evans, C. L., Greenhill, S. J., Watts, J., List, J.-M., Botero, C. A., Gray, R. D., & Kirby, K. (2021). The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 376(1828): 20200056. doi:10.1098/rstb.2020.0056. [PubMan] : Beheim, B. A., Atkinson, Q. D., Bulbulia, J., Gervais, W., Gray, R. D., Henrich, J., Lang, M., Monroe, M. W., Muthukrishna, M., Norenzayan, A., Purzycki, B. G., Shariff, A., Slingerland, E., Spicer, R., & Willard, A. K. (2021). Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods. Nature, 595, E29-E34. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03655-4. [PubMan] : King, B., Reid, L., Walworth, M., Greenhill, S., & Gray, R. D. (2021). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Philippine languages supports rapid initial Austronesian expansion followed by northward back-migration. Talk presented at 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Palacky University. online. 2021-06-28 - 2021-07-01. [PubMan]