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Publications & Presentations |
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & Book Chapters e-mail me if you have problems accessing any of these publications
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| Currie, T.E. (in press) Cultural Evolution Branches Out: A Phylogenetic Approach to Cross-Cultural Research | ||||
| Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2012) The Evolution of Ethnolinguistic Diversity. Advances in Complex Systems 15: 1150006 |  |
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| Currie, T.E. (2012) Using phylogenetic comparative methods to test hypotheses about the pattern and process of human social and political evolution. to appear in N.Minaka & H.Nakao Ed.s |  |
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| Currie, T.E. & Mace, R.(2012) Analyses do not support the parasite-stress theory of human sociality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 35(2): 23-25. Invited response to BBS target article, Fincher & Thornhill (2012), BBS 35(2):1-19 | |
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Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2011) Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization: Reconciling ‘Darwinian’and ‘Spencerian’Evolutionary Approaches in Anthropology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 366: 1108 - 1117 |
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Currie, T.E., Greenhill, S.J., Gray, R.D., Hasegawa, T. & Ruth Mace (2010) Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature. 467: 801–804 |
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| Currie, T.E., Greenhill, S.J., and Mace, R. (2010) Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 3903 - 3912 | |
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| Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2009) Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups. PNAS. 106: 7339-7344 |
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| 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 | |
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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 |
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| Jordan, F., & Currie, T.E. (in prep). The effect of population size and density on rates of linguistic evolution | ||||
| Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. (2011) Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization: Reconciling ‘Darwinian’and ‘Spencerian’Evolutionary Approaches in Anthropology. In Culture Evolves (Andrew Whiten, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, and Kevin N. Laland Eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford. |  |
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Book reviews and other writings |
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| Currie, T.E. (2011) The Natural Order? A review of Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies: The State of Nature by Benoît Dubreuil, Cambridge University Press.Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. 9: 195-200 | |
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| Currie, T.E. (2010) Tests in Time: A Review of Natural Experiments of History, edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. Cliodynamics 1: 116-121 http://escholarship.org/uc/item/368956r6 | |
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| Currie, T.E., Jordan, F.J. & Martelli S. (2009) Modern Approaches to Investigating Cultural Evolution. Human Behavior & Evolution Society Newsletter, Winter 2009 | |
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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
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Invited talks Currie, T.E. Investigating the Evolution of Socio-Political Complexity using Phylogenetic Methods: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Data. NIMBioS Modelling Social Complexity workshop. 6-8th February, 2012 Currie, T.E. Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization. Department of Anthropology, UCL Biological Anthropology Seminar Series. 17th January, 2012 Currie, T.E. & Mace, R. Explaining the global distribution of ethnolinguistic groups. Conference on 'Cultural Evolution in Spatially Structured Populations', AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, UCL, UK. 13th September 2010. Currie, T.E. Using phylogenetic comparative methods to test hypotheses about the pattern and process of human cultural evolution. 12th Annual Meeting Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama Campus, Tokyo. 5th August, 2010. Currie, T.E. Mode and tempo in the evolution of socio-political organization. Graduate Group in Ecology Seminar, Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis, USA. 14th June, 2010. Currie, T.E. 'Investigating the Evolution of Cultural Diversity: A Phylogenetic Approach' Workshop on Investigating the Evolution of Human Cultural Diversity, Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan, University of Kyoto, February 24th, 2010Currie, T.E. 'Using Phylogenetic Comparative Methods to Test Evolutionary Hypotheses' Lecture and Practical session, Workshop on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies: Sokendai, Hayama, Japan. January 26th, 2010 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 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 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 Ethnic Diversity' 23rd annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Montpellier, France. June, 2011 Currie, T.E. 'Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization: A Phylogenetic Comparative Approach' 40th annual meeting of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Francis Marion Hotel, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. February, 2011 Currie, T.E. ‘Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization: Reconciling ‘Darwinian’ and ‘Spencerian’ Evolutionary Approaches in Anthropology’ 22th annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA. June, 2010 Currie, T.E. 'Cultural phylogenetic methods reveal regular sequence in the evolution of human political organization' 2nd annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan, University of Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. December, 2009Currie, 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, Kyoto, Japan. 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, London, UK. 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, London, UK. 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 |
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