Quentin D Atkinson

Summary

Affiliation: University of Oxford
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin
    Russell D Gray
    Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1020, New Zealand
    Nature 426:435-9. 2003
  2. ncbi mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory
    Quentin D Atkinson
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 58A Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2 6QS, United Kingdom
    Mol Biol Evol 25:468-74. 2008
  3. ncbi Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa
    Quentin D Atkinson
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 276:367-73. 2009
  4. ncbi Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates
    Susanne Shultz
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, 64 Banbury Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK
    Nature 479:219-22. 2011

Detail Information

Publications4

  1. ncbi Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin
    Russell D Gray
    Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1020, New Zealand
    Nature 426:435-9. 2003
    ..These results were robust to changes in coding procedures, calibration points, rooting of the trees and priors in the bayesian analysis...
  2. ncbi mtDNA variation predicts population size in humans and reveals a major Southern Asian chapter in human prehistory
    Quentin D Atkinson
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 58A Banbury Rd, Oxford, OX2 6QS, United Kingdom
    Mol Biol Evol 25:468-74. 2008
    ..These findings not only support the use of mtDNA data for estimating human population size but also provide a unique picture of human prehistory and demonstrate the importance of Southern Asia to our recent evolutionary past...
  3. ncbi Bayesian coalescent inference of major human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup expansions in Africa
    Quentin D Atkinson
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, 64 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK
    Proc Biol Sci 276:367-73. 2009
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  4. ncbi Stepwise evolution of stable sociality in primates
    Susanne Shultz
    Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, 64 Banbury Road, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PN, UK
    Nature 479:219-22. 2011
    ..This structuring facilitates the evolution of cooperative behaviours and may provide the scaffold for other distinctive anthropoid traits including coalition formation, cooperative resource defence and large brains...