Seminars

Examples of recent research presentations (page under construction)

The true meaning of Darwinism
Or: the only thing in biology that gets simpler the closer you look

Keynote, Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach October 2025

On the mutability of species: combining molecular and macroevolutionary perspectives on the generation of diversity 

  • Melbourne Integrative Genomics November 2024
  • School of Environmental Sciences University of Queensland October 2024
  • Department of Genetics University of Cambridge January 2023

Population size and language change: an evolutionary perspective

  • Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, March 2025
  • Department of Linguistics, University of Queensland October 2024

Interdisciplinary approaches to language endangerment, Real World Challenges Seminar Series 2024

Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding language endangerment (with Prof. Felicity Meakins), SOAS University of London

Adapting methods from evolutionary biology to explore language evolution.

  • Computational Phylogenetics and language (Pre)history Workshop: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects, Crete May 2023

Tempo and mode of language evolution: adapting methods from evolutionary biology to explore factors influencing language change

  • NCCR Evolving Language Colloquium, University of Zurich, May 2023

Darwinian speciation: from the genome to biodiversity
Gordon Research Conference on Speciation, Lucca, Italy 2023

Evolutionary Modelling of population-level language variation and change (with Felicity Meakins and Xia Hua), Linguistics Master Class, Australian Linguistic Society Summer School 2022

Why do hot countries have spicy food? The challenges of testing evolutionary hypotheses using cross-cultural data

  • Australasian Evolution Society Meeting December 2022
  • New work in social & cultural evolution workshop, Centre for the Philosophy of the Sciences, Australian National University February 2021

Interdisciplinary adventures in language evolution: exploring the past present and future of language diversity,

Future directions for molecular dating: incorporating a wider range of evidence, (with Xia Hua)

  • Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) 2021
  • AsiaEvo conference, August 2021

What, if anything, is special about individuals?