Publications from the lab. Names of excd.lab members are highlighted in orange. Full-text versions are linked to wherever possible. Please contact Fiona Jordan if there are articles you cannot access.
Accepted/in-press publications and pre-prints:
- Haynie HJ, Kavanagh PH, Jordan FM et al. Pathways to social inequality. Evolutionary Human Behaviour. Accepted. Pre-print: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nzv8d/
- Passmore S, Klein W, Greenhill SJ, Quinn K, Evans N, & Jordan FM (2021) Kin against kin: Internal co-selection and the coherence of kinship typologies. Biological Theory. Accepted.
- Sheard C & Jordan FM. To appear. Comment on ‘The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies’. Current Anthropology, 62. Accepted.
- Samarasinghe AN, Berl REW, Gavin MC & Jordan, FM. 2019. Evaluations of accents can be used as a measure of prestige. Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/abgue
- Berl REW, Samarasinghe AN, Roberts, SG, Jordan FM & Gavin MC (2019) Prestige and content biases together shape the cultural transmission of narratives. Pre-print: https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/426n8
Published papers:
2021
- Mitchell A & Jordan FM (2021) The ontogeny of kinship. Journal of Culture & Cognition.
- Mitchell A & Jordan FM (2021) Kinship, seniority, and rights to know in Datooga children’s everyday interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 181 (49-61).
- Mitchell A., Rácz P. (2021) Children’s Knowledge of a Name-Based Avoidance Register: A Quantitative Study among Datooga of Tanzania. American Anthropologist
- Teixidor-Toneu I, Kool A, Greenhill SJ, Kjesrud K, Sandstedt JJ, Manzanilla V & Jordan FM (2021) Historical, archaeological, and linguistic evidence test the phylogenetic inference of Viking-Age plant use. Philosophical Trans. Roy. Soc. B. 376 (1828)
2020
- Passmore S, Jordan FM (2020) No Universals in the cultural evolution of kinship terminology. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2 (E42)
- Roberts, SG et al… (32 authors) (2020). CHIELD: The Causal Hypotheses in Evolutionary Linguistics Database. Journal of Language Evolution, 5(2) 101-120.
- Sheard C, Bowern C, Dockum R, Jordan FM (2020) Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren but not cross-cousin terms or social norms. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2(E30)
- Nassenstein N (Ed), Storch A (Ed), Mitchell A (2020) “Oh, bald father!”: Kinship and swearing among Datooga of Tanzania. Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective. De Gruyter Mouton.
- Blythe J, Tunmuck J, Mitchell A, Rácz P (2020) Acquiring the lexicon and grammar of universal kinship. Language 96(3)
2019
- Berl REW, Samarasinghe AN, Jordan FM & Gavin MC (2019). The Position-Reputation-Information scale of individual prestige. PLoS ONE, 15(6): e0234428.
- Neba AN, Mitchell A (2019) Special-Purpose Registers of Language in Africa. The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
- Luke F, Mitchell A, Ribot I (2019) . In the name of the father-in-law: Pastoralism, patriarchy, and the sociolinguistic prehistory of eastern and southern Africa. Sociolinguistic Studies 13 (2-4)
- Rácz P (2019) Frequency and prototypicality determine variation in the Hungarian verbal 1 SG.INDEF. Acta Linguistica Academica 66(4)
- Birchall J, Henrique Oliveira L, Jordan FM (2019) Nota sobre o sistema de parentesco em Proto-Tupí-Guaraní. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 14(1)
- Rácz P, Passmore S, Jordan FM (2019) Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross‐Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems. Topics in Cognitive Science. 4 June 2019.
- Rácz P, Passmore S, Sheard C, Jordan FM (2019) Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European. Royal Society Open Science 6(10)
2018
- Teixidor-Toneu I, Jordan FM, Hawkins JA (2018) Cultural evolution and medicinal plant use. Nature Plants, 4, 754–761.
- Gavin MC, Kavanagh P, Jordan FM.et al. (2018) The global ecology of human subsistence. Royal Society Open Science, 5(9), 171897.
- Moravec JC, Atkinson Q, Bowern C, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Ross RM, et al. (2018) Post-marital residence patterns show lineage-specific evolution. Evolution and Human Behavior 39(6)
- Beller S, Bender A, Chrisomalis S, Jordan FM, Overmann KA, Saxe GB, et al (2018) The cultural challenge in mathematical cognition. Journal of Numerical Cognition.
- Rácz P, Mitchell A, Joe Blythe (2018) Egocentric and allocentric learning of social-indexical meaning in American English, Datooga, and Murrinhpatha. CogSci 2018 Proceedings.
- Mitchell A (2018) Allusive References and Other-Oriented Stance in an Affinal Avoidance Register. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 28(1)
- Sookias RB, Passmore S, Atkinson QD (2018) Deep cultural ancestry and human development indicators across nation states. Royal Society Open Science. 5(4)
- Kolipakam V, Jordan FM, Dunn M, Greenhill SJ, Bouckaert R, Gray RD, Verkerk A (2018) A Bayesian phylogenetic study of the Dravidian language family. Royal Society Open Science 5(3)
2017
- Kramer R (Ed), Kießling R (Ed) Mitchell A et al. (2017) The pragmatics of a kinship term: The meaning and use of íiyá ‘mother’ in Datooga (Nilotic). Mechthildian Approaches to Afrikanistik: Advances in language based research on Africa. Festschrift for Mechthild Reh.
- Rácz P, Hay JB, Pierrehumbert JB (2017) Social Salience Discriminates Learnability of Contextual Cues in an Artificial Language. Frontiers in Psychology 8
- Rácz P, Jordan FM (2017) Cognitive and Adaptive-Historical Explanations for Kinship Diversity. CogSci 2017 Proceedings 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9911967-6-0
2016
- Kirby KR, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, Jordan FM, Gomes-Ng S, Bibiko H-J, et al. (2016) D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158391.
2015
- Majid A, Jordan FM, & Dunn M. (2015) Semantic systems in closely related languages. Language Sciences 49:1-18.
- Whelpton M & Jordan FM. (2015) The semantics and morphology of household container names in Icelandic and Dutch. Language Sciences 49:67-81.
2014
- Kushnick G, Gray RD, & Jordan FM. (2014) The sequential evolution of land tenure norms. Evolution and Human Behavior 35 (4): 309-318.
- Boden G, Güldemann T, & Jordan FM. (2014) ‘Khoisan’ sibling terminologies in historical perspective: A combined anthropological, linguistic and phylogenetic comparative approach. In Güldemann T & Fehn A-M (eds.), Beyond ‘Khoisan’: Historical relations in the Kalahari Basin (pp. 67-100). CILT 330 ed. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
2013
- Jordan FM & Huber B. (2013) Evolutionary approaches to cross-cultural anthropology. Cross-Cultural Research 47(2): 91-101.
- Jordan FM. (2013) Comparative phylogenetic methods and the study of pattern and process in kinship. In McConvell, P, Keen I, & Hendery R.(eds.), Kinship systems: change and reconstruction (pp. 43-58). Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.
- Jordan FM, van Schaik C, Francois P, Gintis H, Haun DBM, Hruschka DH, Janssen MA, Kitts JA, Lehmann L, Mathew S, Richerson PJ, Turchin P, Wiessner P. (2013) Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups. In Richerson PJ & Christiansen MH (Eds.), Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion (pp. 88-116). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2012
- Matthews LJ, Tehrani JJ, Jordan FM, Collard M, Nunn CL (2011) Testing for Divergent Transmission Histories among Cultural Characters: A Study Using Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods and Iranian Tribal Textile Data. PLoS ONE 6(4): e14810.
- Jordan FM. (2011) A phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of Austronesian sibling terminologies. Human Biology 83(2): 297-321.
- Mace R & Jordan, FM. (2011) Macro-evolutionary studies of cultural diversity: a review of empirical studies of cultural transmission and cultural adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 366: 402-411.
- Haun DBM, Jordan FM, Vallortigara G, & Clayton NS. (2010) Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 14(12): 552-560.
- Howarth H, Sommer V, & Jordan FM. (2010) Visual depictions of female genitalia differ depending on source. Medical Humanities 36: 5-79.
- Fortunato L & Jordan FM. (2010) Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365: 3913-3922.
- Jordan FM & Dunn M. (2010) Kin term diversity is the result of multilevel, historical processes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33: 388.
- Jordan FM, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ, & Mace R. (2009) Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences 276: p.1957-1964.
For publications before 2009, see Fiona Jordan’s publication record on the University of Bristol research repository.