Research
Papers

Bromham, L., Yaxley, K.J., Wilson, O. and Hua, X. 2025. Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations. PNAS, 122(24), e2504483122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504483122

Bromham, L., Yaxley, K.J., Cardillo, M. 2024. Islands are engines of language diversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8(10), 1991-2002, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02488-4

Behie, A.M., Steffens, T.S., Yaxley, K.J., Vincent, A., Wright, P.C., Johnson, S.E., and Pavelka, M.S.M. 2024. Can cyclone exposure explain behavioural and demographic variation among lemur species? PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0300972, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0300972

Silva D.B., Paula Jofré, Tissera, P.B., Yaxley, K.J., Gonzalez Jara, J., Eldridge, C.J.L., Sillero, E., et al. 2024. On the Evolutionary History of a Simulated Disk Galaxy as Seen by Phylogenetic Trees. The Astrophysical Journal, 962(2), 154, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad036a

Walsen, K., Jofré, P., Buder, S., Yaxley,K.J., Das, P., Yates, R.M., Hua, X., et al. 2024. Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 280, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae280

Yaxley, K. J., Skeels, A., & Foley, R. A. 2023. Global variation in the relationship between avian phylogenetic diversity and functional distance is driven by environmental context and constraints. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 2122–2134, https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13762

Skeels, A. & Yaxley, K.J. 2023. Functional endemism captures hotspots of unique phenotypes and restricted ranges. Ecography, 12,  e06913, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06913

Bromham, L. & Yaxley, K.J. 2023. Neighbours and relatives: accounting for spatial distribution when testing causal hypotheses in cultural evolution, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5, e27, https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2023.23

Ritchie, A. M., Hua, X., Cardillo, M., Yaxley, K.J., Dinnage, R. & Bromham, L. 2020. Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation. Diversity and Distributions, 27(1), 164-178, https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13179

Jackson, H., Jofre, P., Yaxley, K. Das, P. Silva, D.B., & Foley, R.A. 2020. Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502(1), 32-47, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa4028

Yaxley, K.J., & Foley, R.A. 2019. Reconstructing the ancestral phenotypes of great apes and humans (Homininae) using subspecies-level phylogenies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128(4), 1021-1028, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz140