As one of the most specific, yet most diverse of human behaviors, language is shaped by
both genomic and extra-genomic evolution. Sharing methods and models between these …

Phylogenetic comparative methods comprise the general endeavor of using an estimated
phylogenetic tree (or set of trees) to make secondary inferences: about trait evolution …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

There is increasing interest in the way that the size, composition, and environment of
populations influence the way that their languages evolve. There are two reasons why an …

Abstract Language diversity is distributed unevenly over the globe. Intriguingly, patterns of
language diversity resemble biodiversity patterns, leading to suggestions that similar …

Phylogenetic trees are essential for studying biology, but their reproducibility under identical
parameter settings remains unexplored. Here, we find that 3515 (18.11%) IQ-TREE-inferred …

It has been proposed that semantic systems evolve under pressure for efficiency. This
hypothesis has so far been supported largely indirectly, by synchronic cross-language …

Many languages express 'blue'and 'green'under an umbrella term 'grue'. To explain this
variation, it has been suggested that changes in eye physiology, due to UV-light incidence …

What makes a word easy to learn? Early‐learned words are frequent and tend to name
concrete referents. But words typically do not occur in isolation. Some words are predictable …

Research on face impressions has often focused on a fixed, universal architecture, treating
regional variability as noise. Here, we demonstrated a crucial yet neglected role of cultural …