M. J. Hamilton

Reconstructing hunter-gatherer planet Earthusing machine-learning

The paper uses machine learning to estimate the population and diversity of hunter-gatherer societies on a hypothetical preagricultural Earth.

Collective computation and the emergence ofhunter-gatherer small-worlds

This paper examines how energy and information flows shape hunter-gatherer socioecology through collective computation and small-world network structures.

Diversity begets diversity in human cultures and mammal species

The paper shows that human cultural diversity and mammal species diversity both scale superlinearly with environmental productivity, suggesting a common ecological mechanism underlying diversity.

Unique allometry of group size and collective brain mass in humans and primates relative to other mammals

The paper shows primates, including humans, have unique allometries in group size and collective brain mass compared to other mammals, with implications for social cognition.

Nonlinear diversification rates of linguistic phylogenies over the Holocene

This study quantifies nonlinear diversification rates of languages over the Holocene using Bayesian phylogenies, finding initial rapid diversification followed by slowing within and across language families.