Publications

Jordan, F. (2011). A phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of Austronesian sibling terminologies. Human Biology, 83, 297-321. doi:10.3378/027.083.0209. more >
Mace, R., & Jordan, F. (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 B, Biological Sciences, 366, 402-411. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0238. more >
Matthews, L. J., Tehrani, J. J., Jordan, F., Collard, M., & Nunn, C. (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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014810. more >
Fortunato, L., & Jordan, F. (2010). Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 365(1559), 3913 -3922. doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0017. more >
Haun, D. B. M., Jordan, F., Vallortigara, G., & Clayton, N. S. (2010). Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology [Review article]. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 552-560. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2010.09.006. more >
Howarth, H., Sommer, V., & Jordan, F. (2010). Visual depictions of female genitalia differ depending on source. Medical Humanities, 36, 75-79. doi:10.1136/jmh.2009.003707. more >
Jordan, F., & Dunn, M. (2010). Kin term diversity is the result of multilevel, historical processes [Comment on Doug Jones]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 388. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10001962. more >
Jordan, F., Gray, R., Greenhill, S., & Mace, R. (2009). Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 276(1664), 1957-1964. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0088. more >
Lawson, D., Jordan, F., & Magid, K. (2008). On sex and suicide bombing: An evaluation of Kanazawa’s ‘evolutionary psychological imagination’. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6(1), 73-84. doi:10.1556/JEP.2008.1002. more >
Jordan, F. (2007). Engaging in chit-chat (and all that). [Review of the book Why we talk: The evolutionary origins of language by Jean-Louis Dessalles]. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5(1-4), 241-244. doi:10.1556/JEP.2007.1014. more >
Mace, R., Jordan, F., & Holden, C. (2003). Testing evolutionary hypotheses about human biological adaptation using cross-cultural comparison. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A-Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 136(1), 85-94. doi:10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00019-9. more >
Jordan, F., & Gray, R. D. (2001). Comment on Terrell, Kelly and Rainbird. Current Anthropology, 42(1), 114-115. more >
Gray, R., & Jordan, F. (2000). Language trees support the express-train sequence of Austronesian expansion. Nature, 405, 1052-1055. doi:10.1038/35016575. more >

Jordan, F. (in press). Comparative phylogenetic methods and the study of pattern and process in kinship . In P. McConvell, I. Keen, & R. Hendery (Eds.), Kinship systems: Change and reconstruction. University of Utah Press.
Haun, D. B. M., Jordan, F., Vallortigara, G., & Clayton, N. S. (2011). Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology [Reprint]. In S. Dehaene, & E. Brannon (Eds.), Space, time and number in the brain. Searching for the foundations of mathematical thought (pp. 191-206). London: Academic Press. more >
Jordan, F., & Mace, R. (2005). The evolution of human sex-ratio at birth: A bio-cultural analysis. In R. Mace, C. J. Holden, & S. Shennan (Eds.), The evolution of cultural diversity: A phylogenetic approach (pp. 207-216). London: UCL Press. more >

Jordan, F. (2007). A comparative phylogenetic approach to Austronesian cultural evolution. PhD Thesis, University College London, London. more >

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