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Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement by Gray, R.D, Drummond, A.J, Greenhill, S.J

“…Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin…”
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New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use by Boeckle, M, Schiestl, M, Frohnwieser, A, Gruber, R, Miller, R, Suddendorf, T, Gray, R D, Taylor, A H, Clayton, N S

“…The ability to plan for future events is one of the defining features of human intelligence. Whether non-human animals can plan for specific future situations…”
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Towards high-capacity fibre-optic communications at the speed of light in vacuum by Poletti, F., Wheeler, N. V., Petrovich, M. N., Baddela, N., Numkam Fokoua, E., Hayes, J. R., Gray, D. R., Li, Z., Slavík, R., Richardson, D. J.

“…Wide-bandwidth signal transmission with low latency is emerging as a key requirement in a number of applications, including the development of future…”
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The shape and tempo of language evolution by Greenhill, S. J., Atkinson, Q. D., Meade, A., Gray, R. D.

“…There are approximately 7000 languages spoken in the world today. This diversity reflects the legacy of thousands of years of cultural evolution. How far back…”
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Thermodynamic characterization of human telomere quadruplex unfolding by Buscaglia, R., Gray, R. D., Chaires, J. B.

“…ABSTRACT The 3′‐terminal extensions of eukaryotic chromosomes are unique examples of functional single‐stranded DNA. Human telomeres are constructed of the…”
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New Caledonian crows’ responses to mirrors by Medina, F.S., Taylor, A.H., Hunt, G.R., Gray, R.D.

“…Recent mirror studies with two corvid species have reported contrasting findings. Jungle crows, Corvus macrorhynchos, showed no self-contingent behaviour when…”
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The social structure of New Caledonian crows by Holzhaider, J.C., Sibley, M.D., Taylor, A.H., Singh, P.J., Gray, R.D., Hunt, G.R.

“…New Caledonian (NC) crows, Corvus moneduloides, have impressive tool-manufacturing and tool-using skills in the wild, and captive birds have displayed…”
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Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion by Gray, Russell D, Jordan, Fiona M

“…Languages, like molecules, document evolutionary history. Darwin observed that evolutionary change in languages greatly resembled the processes of biological…”
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Risk Assessment in the Face of a Changing Environment: Gypsy Moth and Climate Change in Utah by Logan, J. A., Régnière, J., Gray, D. R., Munson, A. S.

“…The importance of efficaciously assessing the risk for introduction and establishment of pest species is an increasingly important ecological and economic…”
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A placebo-controlled evaluation of butterbur and fexofenadine on objective and subjective outcomes in perennial allergic rhinitis by Lee, D. K. C., Gray, R. D., Robb, F. M., Fujihara, S., Lipworth, B. J.

“…Summary Background There are presently no placebo‐controlled data regarding the effects of butterbur (BB) on subjective and objective outcomes in patients with…”
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Does absolute brain size really predict self-control? Hand-tracking training improves performance on the A-not-B task by Jelbert, S. A., Taylor, A. H., Gray, R. D.

“…Large-scale, comparative cognition studies are set to revolutionize the way we investigate and understand the evolution of intelligence. However, the…”
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Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions by Jelbert, S. A., Hosking, R. J., Taylor, A. H., Gray, R. D.

“…Cumulative cultural evolution occurs when social traditions accumulate improvements over time. In humans cumulative cultural evolution is thought to depend on…”
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mtDNA Variation Predicts Population Size in Humans and Reveals a Major Southern Asian Chapter in Human Prehistory by Atkinson, Quentin D., Gray, Russell D., Drummond, Alexei J.

“…The relative timing and size of regional human population growth following our expansion from Africa remain unknown. Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity…”
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Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation by Griffiths, P. E., Gray, R. D.

“…The developmental systems approach to understanding evolution is examined. It is argued that evolution is best construed as differential replication of total…”
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New Caledonian crows' planning behaviour: a reply to de Mahy et al by Boeckle, M., Schiestl, M., Frohnwieser, A., Gruber, R., Miller, R., Suddendorf, T., Gray, R. D., Taylor, A. H., Clayton, N. S.

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Do New Caledonian crows solve physical problems through causal reasoning? by Taylor, A.H, Hunt, G.R, Medina, F.S, Gray, R.D

“…The extent to which animals other than humans can reason about physical problems is contentious. The benchmark test for this ability has been the trap-tube…”
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Can Ecological Theory Predict the Distribution of Foraging Animals? A Critical Analysis of Experiments on the Ideal Free Distribution by Kennedy, Martyn, Gray, Russell D.

“…Opinions differ on the empirical success of the Ideal Free Distribution. The Ideal Free model predicts that the distribution of organisms between resource…”
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Outbreak patterns of the spruce budworm and their impacts in Canada by Gray, D.R, MacKinnon, W.E

“…Historical records (1941-1998) of spruce budworm defoliation in Canada were analyzed to estimate variability in the spatial and temporal patterns of…”
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Publisher Correction: Mental template matching is a potential cultural transmission mechanism for New Caledonian crow tool manufacturing traditions by Jelbert, S. A., Hosking, R. J., Taylor, A. H., Gray, R. D.

“…A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper…”
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X-ray tomography for structural analysis of microstructured and multimaterial optical fibers and preforms by Sandoghchi, S R, Jasion, G T, Wheeler, N V, Jain, S, Lian, Z, Wooler, J P, Boardman, R P, Baddela, N, Chen, Y, Hayes, J, Fokoua, E Numkam, Bradley, T, Gray, D R, Mousavi, S M, Petrovich, M, Poletti, F, Richardson, D J

“…Specialty optical fibers, in particular microstructured and multi-material optical fibers, have complex geometry in terms of structure and/or material…”
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