Mark Pagel

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Top papers

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1 On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects. Science 2005 5.93
2 Languages evolve in punctuational bursts. Science 2008 3.15
3 Molecular phylogenies link rates of evolution and speciation. Science 2003 2.64
4 Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature 2009 2.52
5 Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs. Nature 2007 2.20
6 Predicting functional gene links from phylogenetic-statistical analyses of whole genomes. PLoS Comput Biol 2005 2.17
7 The cultural wealth of nations. Nature 2004 2.12
8 Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination. Aging Cell 2011 2.07
9 Multiple routes to mammalian diversity. Nature 2011 1.60
10 Bergmann's rule and body size in mammals. Am Nat 2003 1.59
11 Constrained models of evolution lead to improved prediction of functional linkage from correlated gain and loss of genes. Bioinformatics 2006 1.42
12 Do variations in substitution rates and male mutation bias correlate with life-history traits? A study of 32 mammalian genomes. Evolution 2011 1.25
13 Detecting the node-density artifact in phylogeny reconstruction. Syst Biol 2006 1.25
14 Genotypic sex determination enabled adaptive radiations of extinct marine reptiles. Nature 2009 1.20
15 How do we use language? Shared patterns in the frequency of word use across 17 world languages. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2011 1.18
16 Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution. Trends Ecol Evol 2009 1.16
17 On the stability of populations of mammals, birds, fish and insects. Ecol Lett 2007 1.13
18 Evolutionary shifts between host oak sections and host-plant organs in Andricus gallwasps. Evolution 2002 1.13
19 Phylogenetic mixture models can reduce node-density artifacts. Syst Biol 2008 1.07
20 Relating traits to diversification: a simple test. Am Nat 2008 0.94
21 The slow road to the eukaryotic genome. Bioessays 2006 0.83
22 Model misspecification not the node-density artifact. Evolution 2008 0.80
23 Evolutionary biology: Birds of a feather. Nature 2012 0.79
24 Linguistic evidence supports date for Homeric epics. Bioessays 2013 0.77
25 Evolutionary biology: polygamy and parenting. Nature 2003 0.77
26 Reply to Mahowald and Gibson and to Heggarty: No problems with short words, and no evidence provided. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 0.75
27 Evolution, bioinformatics and evolutionary bioinformatics online. Evol Bioinform Online 2007 0.75