Papers
Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2009) Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups.
PNAS. 106: 7339-7344
Greenhill, S.J., Currie, T.E., and Gray, R.D. (2009) Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies? Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276:2299-2306
Currie, T.E., and Little, A.C. (2009) The Relative Importance of the Face and Body in Judgments of Human Physical Attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior 30: 409-416
Currie, T.E., Greenhill, S.J., and Mace, R. (in press) Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
Currie, T.E., Jordan, F.J. & Martelli S. (2009) Modern Approaches to Investigating Cultural Evolution. Human Behavior & Evolution Society Newsletter, Winter 2009 pdf
Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2007) A Holy Grail for Anthropology? Explaining the Latitudinal Gradient in Human Cultural Diversity. Winning paper of the New Investigator Competition at the 19th annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
Invited talks
Currie, T.E. ‘The Phylogenetic Approach to Investigating Cultural Evolution’ Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems Symposium, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies: Sokendai, Hayama, Japan. November 4th, 2009
Currie, T.E. ‘The Phylogenetic Approach to Investigating Cultural Evolution’ Biological Symposium, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan. November 12th, 2009
Currie, T.E. ‘The Evolution of Political Complexity: Investigating a major trend in human history.’ The Cultural Evolution of Human Groups symposium, British Association Festival of Science, University of Liverpool. September, 2008
Presentations
Currie, T.E. ‘The Evolution of Political Complexity: Investigating a major trend in human history.’ 20th annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Kyoto. June, 2008
Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. ‘Explaining the global distribution of human cultural groups.’ 3rd annual European Human Behaviour and Evolution Conference, University of Montpellier, France. April, 2008.
Currie, T.E. ‘Horizontal transmission of Cultural Traits and Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: A reply to Nunn et al.’ Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Scientific meeting, University College London. December, 2007.
Jordan, F.J. & Currie T.E. ‘Virtual Archaeology: Using phylogenetic methods to reconstruct ancestral states of cultural traits.’ London Evolutionary Research Network & Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity Modern Approaches to Investigating Cultural Evolution Workshop, University College London. November, 2007
Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. ‘A Holy Grail for Anthropology? Explaining the Latitudinal Gradient in Human Cultural Diversity.’ 19th annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA. June, 2007
Currie, T.E. ‘The Evolution of Social Stratification in the Pacific: A Phylogenetic approach’, The Annual New Zealand Phylogenetics Meeting, Mt. Ruapehu, New Zealand. February, 2007
Currie, T.E. ‘The Evolution of Social Stratification in the Austronesian Cultures of the Pacific’, London Evolutionary Research Network Annual Conference, Institute of Zoology, London, UK. September, 2006
Currie, T.E. ‘The Relative Importance of the Face and Body in Human Physical Attractiveness’, Human Behaviour and Evolution Society Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. June, 2006
