All Stories

  1. The non-independence of nations and why it matters

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  2. Material insecurity predicts greater commitment to moralistic and less commitment to local deities: a cross-cultural investigation

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  3. Moralistic and local god beliefs and the extent of prosocial preferences on Tanna Island, Vanuatu

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  4. The moralization bias of gods’ minds: a cross-cultural test

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  5. Global relationships between musical, linguistic, and genetic diversity

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Current Biology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  7. Cultural invariance in musical communication

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  8. Challenging the Idea That Humans Are Not Designed to Solve Climate Change

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  9. Appealing to the minds of gods: Religious beliefs and appeals correspond to features of local social ecologies

    Article • October 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  10. We must challenge the idea that humans are not designed to solve climate change

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  11. Negative Words Mutate Faster than Positive Words in Lexical Evolution

    Article • September 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  12. Cooperative phenotype predicts climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  13. Treatment of missing data determined conclusions regarding moralizing gods

    Article • Nature, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  15. Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reflect the dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology

    Article • October 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  16. Experiments in political psychology

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  17. Cooperative and conformist behavioural preferences predict the dual dimensions of political ideology

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  18. Perceptual vs. automated judgments of music copyright infringement

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  20. The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  21. The cultural foundations of modern democracies

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  22. The dual evolutionary foundations of political ideology

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  23. Treatment of missing data determines conclusions regarding moralizing gods

    Article • May 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  24. Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  26. Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  27. The cognitive and cultural foundations of moral behavior

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  28. Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  29. Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, April 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  30. The origin and expansion of Pama–Nyungan languages across Australia

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claire Bowern, Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2016, PLOS

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2016, PLOS

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  36. Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

    Article • Nature, April 2016, Nature

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  37. Moralistic gods, supernatural punishment and the expansion of human sociality

    Article • Nature, February 2016, Nature

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  39. Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  40. Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2015, PLOS

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • American Journal of Community Psychology, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  43. Social clustering in high school transport choices

    Article • Journal of Environmental Psychology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  47. Understanding Change in Recycling and Littering Behavior Across a School Social Network

    Article • American Journal of Community Psychology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  49. Reply to Dixson: Infanticide triggers primate monogamy

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  51. Male infanticide leads to social monogamy in primates

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  53. Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  54. The descent of words

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  55. Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  56. The evolutionary history of primate mating systems

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, September 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  57. Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family

    Article • Science, August 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  58. Group Size and the Trajectory of Religious Identification

    Article • Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, June 2012, Wiley

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  59. Response to Comment on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”

    Article • Science, March 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  60. Response to Comments on “Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa”

    Article • Science, February 2012, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  61. Computational phylogenetics and the internal structure of Pama-Nyungan

    Article • Language, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson, Professor Claire Bowern

  62. Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates

    Article • Nature, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  63. Supernatural punishment and individual social compliance across cultures

    Article • Religion Brain & Behavior, June 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Science, April 2011, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  65. Language evolution and human history: what a difference a date makes

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Linguistic Typology, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  67. The cultural morphospace of ritual form

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  69. The shape and tempo of language evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Simon Greenhill, Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  70. Review of McMahon & McMahon (2005): Language Classification by Numbers

    Article • Diachronica, April 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  71. The potential for genetic adaptations to language

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  73. Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

    Article • Science, February 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  74. mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, January 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Nature, October 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  77. Curious Parallels and Curious Connections—Phylogenetic Thinking in Biology and Historical Linguistics

    Article • Systematic Biology, August 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, August 2005, Wiley

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

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

    Article • November 2003

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson

  80. Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Quentin D Atkinson