Publications
Journal Articles
Bromham, Lindell, Yaxley, Keaghan, Wilson, Oscar and Hua, Xia (2025). Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122 (24) e2504483122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2504483122
Bromham, Lindell, Yaxley, Keaghan J. and Cardillo, Marcel (2024). Islands are engines of language diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 8 (10). doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02488-4
Behie, Alison M., Steffens, Travis S., Yaxley, Keaghan, Vincent, Alan, Wright, Patricia C., Johnson, Steig E. and Pavelka, Mary S. M. (2024). Can cyclone exposure explain behavioural and demographic variation among lemur species?. Plos One, 19 (3) e0300972. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300972
Walsen, Kurt, Jofre, Paula, Buder, Sven, Yaxley, Keaghan, Das, Payel, Yates, Robert M., Hua, Xia, Signor, Theosamuele, Eldridge, Camilla, Rojas-Arriagada, Alvaro, Tissera, Patricia B., Johnston, Evelyn, Aguilera-Gomez, Claudia, Zoccali, Manuela, Gilmore, Gerry and Foley, Robert (2024). Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 529 (3), 2946-2966. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stae280
Silva, Danielle de Brito, Jofre, Paula, Tissera, Patricia B., Yaxley, Keaghan J., Jara, Jenny Gonzalez, Eldridge, Camilla J. L., Sillero, Emanuel, Yates, Robert M., Hua, Xia, Das, Payel, Aguilera-Gomez, Claudia, Johnston, Evelyn J., Rojas-Arriagada, Alvaro, Foley, Robert and Gilmore, Gerard (2024). On the Evolutionary History of a Simulated Disk Galaxy as Seen by Phylogenetic Trees. Astrophysical Journal, 962 (2) 154. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad036a
Skeels, Alexander and Yaxley, Keaghan J. (2023). Functional endemism captures hotspots of unique phenotypes and restricted ranges. Ecography, 2023 (12) e06913. doi: 10.1111/ecog.06913
Yaxley, Keaghan J., Skeels, Alexander and Foley, Robert 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 (12), 2122-2134. doi: 10.1111/geb.13762
Bromham, Lindell and Yaxley, Keaghan J. (2023). Neighbours and relatives: accounting for spatial distribution when testing causal hypotheses in cultural evolution. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5 e27. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2023.23
Jackson, Holly, Jofre, Paula, Yaxley, Keaghan, Das, Payel, Silva, Danielle de Brito and Foley, Robert (2021). Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 502 (1), 32-47. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa4028
Ritchie, Andrew M., Hua, Xia, Cardillo, Marcel, Yaxley, Keaghan J., Dinnage, Russell and Bromham, Lindell (2020). Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation. Diversity and Distributions, 27 (1), 164-178. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13179
Yaxley, Keaghan J. and Foley, Robert A. (2019). Reconstructing the ancestral phenotypes of great apes and humans (Homininae) using subspecies-level phylogenies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 128 (4), 1021-1038. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz140