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Pagel, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7287-8865, O’Donovan, Ciara ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4770-4227 and Meade, Andrew (2022) General statistical model shows that macroevolutionary patterns and processes are consistent with Darwinian gradualism. Nature Communications, 13 (1). 1113. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28595-z

Baker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-6934, Meade, Andrew, Pagel, Mark and Venditti, Chris (2021) Nothing wrong with the analysis of clades in comparative evolutionary studies. Systematic Biology, 70 (1). pp. 197-201. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa067

Zhang, Hanzhi, Ji, Ting, Pagel, Mark and Mace, Ruth (2020) Dated phylogeny suggests early neolithic origin of sino-tibetan languages. Scientific Reports, 10. 20792. ISSN 2045-2322 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77404-4

Calude, Andreea Simona, Miller, Steven and Pagel, Mark (2020) Modelling loanword success – a sociolinguistic quantitative study of Māori loanwords in New Zealand English. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16 (1). pp. 29-66. ISSN 1613-7027 doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2017-0010

Sibly, Richard M., Pagel, Mark, Curnow, Robert N. and Edwards, Jonathan (2019) How phenotypic matching based on neutral mating cues enables speciation in locally adapted populations. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (23). pp. 13506-13514. ISSN 2045-7758 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5806

Pagel, Mark, Beaumont, Mark Ashton, Meade, Andrew, Verkerk, Annemarie and Calude, Andreea (2019) Dominant words rise to the top by positive frequency-dependent selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (15). pp. 7397-7402. ISSN 1091-6490 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1816994116

Dibble, Jacob, Prelorendjos, Alexios, Romice, Ombretta, Zanella, Mattia, Strano, Emanuele, Pagel, Mark and Porta, Sergio (2019) On the origin of spaces: morphometric foundations of urban form evolution. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 46 (4). pp. 707-730. ISSN 2399-8091 doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317725075

Pagel, Mark and Meade, Andrew (2018) The deep history of the number words. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 373 (1740). 0517. ISSN 0962-8436 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0517

Pagel, Mark (2017) Q&A: What is human language, when did it evolve and why should we care? BMC Biology, 15 (1). 64. ISSN 1741-7007 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0405-3

Pagel, Mark (2017) Darwinian perspectives on the evolution of human languages. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24 (1). pp. 151-157. ISSN 1069-9384 doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1072-z

Pagel, Mark (2016) Animal behaviour: lethal violence deep in the human lineage. Nature, 538. pp. 180-181. ISSN 1476-4687 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19474

Baker, Jo, Meade, Andrew, Pagel, Mark and Venditti, Chris (2016) Positive phenotypic selection inferred from phylogenies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 118 (1). pp. 95-115. ISSN 0024-4066 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12649

Grollemund, Rebecca, Branford, Simon, Bostoen, Koen, Meade, Andrew, Venditti, Chris and Pagel, Mark (2015) Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (43). pp. 13296-13301. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503793112

Baker, Joanna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-6934, Meade, Andrew, Pagel, Mark and Venditti, Chris (2015) Adaptive evolution toward larger size in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (16). pp. 5093-5098. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1419823112

Hruschka, Daniel J., Branford, Simon, Smith, Eric D., Wilkins, Jon, Meade, Andrew, Pagel, Mark and Bhattacharya, Tanmoy (2015) Detecting regular sound changes in linguistics as events of concerted evolution. Current Biology, 25 (1). pp. 1-9. ISSN 0960-9822 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.064

Venditti, Chris and Pagel, Mark (2014) Plenty of room for punctuational change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29 (2). pp. 71-72. ISSN 0169-5347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.002

Altschuler, Eric Lewin, Calude, Andreea, Meade, Andrew and Pagel, Mark (2013) Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics. Bioessays, 35 (5). pp. 417-420. ISSN 0265-9247 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201200165

Pagel, Mark, Atkinson, Quentin D., Calude, Andreea and Meade, Andrew (2013) Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 (21). pp. 8471-8476. ISSN 0027-8424 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1218726110

Venditti, Chris, Meade, Andrew and Pagel, Mark (2011) Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature, 479. pp. 393-396. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10516

Wilson Sayres, Melissa A., Venditti, Chris, Pagel, Mark and Makova, Kateryna D. (2011) Do variations in substitution rates and male mutation bias correlate with life-history traits? A study of 32 mammalian genomes. Evolution, 65 (10). pp. 2800-2815. ISSN 1558-5646 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01337.x

Gomes, Nuno M V, Ryder, Oliver A, Houck, Marlys L, Charter, Suellen J, Walker, William, Forsyth, Nicholas R, Austad, Steven N, Venditti, Chris, Pagel, Mark, Shay, Jerry W and Wright, Woodring E (2011) Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination. Aging cell, 10 (5). pp. 761-768. ISSN 1474-9718 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2011.00718.x

Venditti, Chris and Pagel, Mark (2010) Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 25 (1). pp. 14-20. ISSN 0169-5347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2009.06.010

Venditti, Chris, Meade, Andrew and Pagel, Mark (2010) Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature, 463 (7379). pp. 349-352. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08630

Organ, C. L., Janes, D. E., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2009) Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles. Nature, 461 (7262). pp. 389-392. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08350

Pagel, M. (2009) Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator. Nature Reviews Genetics, 10 (6). pp. 405-415. ISSN 1471-0056 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2560

Pagel, M. (2009) Insight overview: natural selection 150 years on. Nature, 457 (7231). pp. 808-811. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07889

Pagel, M. (2009) Natural selection 150 years on. Nature, 457 (7231). pp. 808-811. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07889

Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Evolution in fits and starts. The Biologist, 55 (3). pp. 140-146.

Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008) Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science, 319 (5863). p. 588. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1149683

Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Model misspecification not the node-density artifact. Evolution, 62 (8). pp. 2125-2126. ISSN 0014-3820 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00407.x

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2008) Modelling heterotachy in phylogenetic inference by reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 363 (1512). pp. 3955-3964. ISSN 0962-8436 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0178

Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Venditti, C., Greenhill, S. J. and Pagel, M. (2008) Parsing the evolution of language - Response. Science, 320 (5875). p. 446. ISSN 0036-8075

Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2008) Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts. Systematic Biology, 57 (2). pp. 286-293. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802044045

Freckleton, R. P., Phillimore, A. B. and Pagel, M. (2008) Relating traits to diversification: A simple test. American Naturalist, 172 (1). pp. 102-115. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/588076

Pagel, M. (2008) Rise of the digital machine. Nature, 452 (7188). p. 699. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/452699a

Venditti, C. and Pagel, M. (2008) Speciation and bursts of evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 1 (3). pp. 274-280. ISSN 1936-6426 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-008-0049-4

Pagel, M. and Atkinson, Q. D. (2008) The potential for genetic adaptations to language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31 (5). 529-+. ISSN 0140-525X doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x08005207

Pagel, M., Meade, A. and Scott, D. (2007) Assembly rules for protein networks derived from phylogenetic-statistical analysis of whole genomes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology, 7. p. 11. ISSN 1471-2148 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-s1-s16

Barker, D., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2007) Constrained models of evolution lead to improved prediction of functional linkage from correlated gain and loss of genes. Bioinformatics, 23 (1). pp. 14-20. ISSN 1367-4803 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btl558

Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q. D. and Meade, A. (2007) Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature, 449 (7163). 717-U7. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06176

Sibly, R. M., Barker, D., Hone, J. and Pagel, M. (2007) On the stability of populations of mammals, birds, fish and insects. Ecology Letters, 10 (10). pp. 970-976. ISSN 1461-023X doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01092.x

Organ, C. L., Shedlock, A. M., Meade, A., Pagel, M. and Edwards, S. V. (2007) Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs. Nature, 446 (7132). pp. 180-184. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05621

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2006) Bayesian analysis of correlated evolution of discrete characters by reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo. American Naturalist, 167 (6). pp. 808-825. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/503444

Pagel, M. (2006) Darwinian cultural evolution rivals genetic evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29 (4). p. 360. ISSN 0140-525X

Pagel, M. (2006) Darwinism and its discontents. Nature, 443 (7107). p. 31. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/443031b

Venditti, C., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2006) Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology, 55 (4). pp. 637-643. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150600865567

Pagel, M. (2006) Editorial: evolution, bioinformatics, and EBO. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online , 2. pp. 357-358. ISSN 1176-9343

Lumbsch, H. T., Schmitt, I., Barker, D. and Pagel, M. (2006) Evolution of micromorphological and chemical characters in the lichen-forming fungal family Pertusariaceae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 89 (4). pp. 615-626. ISSN 0024-4066 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00696.x

Pagel, M., Venditti, C. and Meade, A. (2006) Large punctuational contribution of speciation to evolutionary divergence at the molecular level. Science, 314 (5796). pp. 119-121. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1129647

Sibly, R. M., Barker, D., Denham, M. C., Hone, J. and Pagel, M. (2006) Response to comment on "On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects". Science, 313 (5783). p. 45. ISSN 0036-8075

Sibly, R. M., Barker, D., Denham, M. C., Hone, J. and Pagel, M. (2006) Response to comments on "On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects". Science, 311 (5764). p. 1. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121565

Lester, L., Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2006) The slow road to the eukaryotic genome. Bioessays, 28 (1). pp. 57-64. ISSN 0265-9247 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.20344

Sibly, R. M., Barker, D., Denham, M. C., Hone, J. and Pagel, M. (2005) On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Science, 309 (5734). pp. 607-610. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1110760

Barker, D. and Pagel, M. (2005) Predicting functional gene links from phylogenetic-statistical analyses of whole genomes. PLoS Computational Biology, 1 (1). pp. 24-31. ISSN 1553-734X doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0010003

Pagel, M., Meade, A. and Barker, D. (2004) Bayesian estimation of ancestral character states on phylogenies. Systematic Biology, 53 (5). pp. 673-684. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150490522232

Pagel, M. (2004) Limpets break Dollo's law. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 19 (6). pp. 278-280. ISSN 0169-5347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2004.03.020

Webster, A. J., Payne, R. and Pagel, M. (2004) Response to comments on "Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation". Science, 303 (5655). p. 2. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1091131

Pagel, M. and Mace, R. (2004) The cultural wealth of nations. Nature, 428 (6980). pp. 275-278. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/428275a

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2004) A phylogenetic mixture model for detecting pattern-heterogeneity in gene sequence or character-state data. Systematic Biology, 53 (4). pp. 571-581. ISSN 1063-5157 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150490468675

Freckleton, R. P., Harvey, P. H. and Pagel, M. (2003) Bergmann's rule and body size in mammals. American Naturalist, 161 (5). pp. 821-825. ISSN 0003-0147 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00363.x

Pagel, M. (2003) Evolutionary biology: polygamy and parenting. Nature, 424 (6944). pp. 23-24. ISSN 0028-0836 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/424023a

Webster, A. J., Payne, R. J. H. and Pagel, M. (2003) Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science, 301 (5632). p. 478. ISSN 0036-8075 doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1083202

Pagel, M. and Bodmer, W. (2003) A naked ape would have fewer parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 270 (Suppl 1). S117-S119. ISSN 0962-8452 doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0041

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Meade, Andrew and Pagel, Mark (2022) Ancestral state reconstruction using Bayes traits. In: Luo, Haiwei (ed.) Environmental Microbial Evolution: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana, New York, pp. 255-266, XI, 362. ISBN 9781071626900 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2691-7_12

Pagel, Mark (2021) You are not as clever as you think. In: Almqvist, Kurt and Hessérus, Mattias (eds.) Knowledge and information: the potential and peril of human intelligence. Stolpe Publishing, Sweden, pp. 15-23, 345 pages. ISBN 9789189069619

Pagel, M. and Pomiankowski, A. (2008) The organismal prospect. In: M., Pagelm and Pomiankowski, A. (eds.) Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics. Sinauer, Sunderland MA, pp. 1-10. ISBN 9780878936540

Meade, A. and Pagel, M. (2008) A phylogenetic mixture model for heterotachy. In: Pontarotti, P. (ed.) Evolutionary Biology from Concept to Application. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 29-41 . ISBN 9783642009518

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2006) Estimating rates of lexical replacement on phylogenetic trees of languages. In: Forster, P. and Renfrew, C. (eds.) Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages. McDonald institute Monographs, pp. 173-182. ISBN 9781902937335

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2005) Bayesian estimation of correlated evolution across cultures: a case study of marriage systems and wealth transfer at marriage. In: Mace, R., Holden, C.J. and Shennan, S. (eds.) The Evolution of Cultural Diversity: a phylogenetic approach. University College London Press, London, pp. 235-256. ISBN 9781844720651

Pagel, M. and Meade, A. (2005) Mixture models in phylogenetic inference. In: Gascuel, O. (ed.) Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny. Oxford University Press, pp. 121-142. ISBN 9780198566106

Pagel, M. and Bodmer, W. (2004) The evolution of human hairlessness: cultural adaptations and the ectoparasite hypothesis. In: Wasser, S.P. (ed.) Evolutionary Theory and Processes: Modern Horizons (papers in honour of Eviatar Nevo). Kluwer Academic Publishers., London, pp. 329-336. ISBN 140201693X