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Lindell Bromham is affiliated with Australian National University in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines including social sciences and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Bromham's work frequently intersects fields such as genetics, cultural studies, linguistics and language, paleontology, and molecular biology.

Their main scientific topics focus on language and cultural evolution, evolution and paleontology studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic diversity and population structure, linguistic variation and morphology, species distribution and climate change, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bromham include Xia Hua, Marcel Cardillo, Andrew M. Ritchie, Felicity Meakins, and Russell Dinnage.

Key recent publications by Lindell Bromham include:

  • Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors, 2020, Journal of Language Evolution

Bromham has published multiple papers in well-known venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Language Evolution
  • Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Through their research, Bromham has explored diverse aspects of evolutionary biology and linguistics. They have contributed to the understanding of the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics, genetic mutation rates in long-lived species, and modeling phylogenetic diversity under varying evolutionary rates.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants

    Timothy J. Flowers;Timothy J. Flowers;Hanaa K. Galal;Hanaa K. Galal;Lindell Bromham

  • The modern molecular clock.

    Lindell Bromham;David Penny

  • Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution

    Simon Y. W. Ho;Robert Lanfear;Lindell Bromham;Matthew J. Phillips

  • Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

    Hervé Sauquet;Simon Y. W. Ho;Simon Y. W. Ho;Maria A. Gandolfo;Gregory J. Jordan

  • Estimating divergence dates from molecular sequences

    Andrew Rambaut;L Bromham

  • Determinants of rate variation in mammalian DNA sequence evolution.

    Lindell Bromham;Andrew Rambaut;Paul H. Harvey

  • Why do species vary in their rate of molecular evolution

    Lindell Bromham

  • Molecular dating when rates vary.

    John J. Welch;Lindell Bromham

  • A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates

    Jessica A. Thomas;Jessica A. Thomas;Jessica A. Thomas;John J. Welch;John J. Welch;Robert Lanfear;Robert Lanfear;Lindell Bromham;Lindell Bromham

  • The genome as a life-history character: why rate of molecular evolution varies between mammal species

    Lindell Bromham

  • Body Size and Risk of Extinction in Australian Mammals

    Marcel Cardillo;Lindell Bromham

  • Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

    John J Welch;John J Welch;Olaf R P Bininda-Emonds;Lindell Bromham;Lindell Bromham

  • Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

    Robert Lanfear;John J. Welch;Lindell Bromham

  • Effects of stock grazing on the ground invertebrate fauna of woodland remnants

    Lindell Bromham;Marcel Cardillo;Andrew F. Bennett;Mark A. Elgar

  • Testing the Cambrian explosion hypothesis by using a molecular dating technique

    Lindell Bromham;Andrew Rambaut;Richard Fortey;Alan Cooper

  • Growing up with dinosaurs: molecular dates and the mammalian radiation.

    Lindell Bromham;Matthew J. Phillips;David Penny

  • Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages

    Simon J. Greenhill;Xia Hua;Caela F. Welsh;Hilde Schneemann

  • Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds

    Robert Lanfear;Simon Y. W. Ho;Dominic Love;Lindell Bromham

  • Population size and molecular evolution on islands

    Megan Woolfit;Lindell Bromham

  • Increased rates of sequence evolution in endosymbiotic bacteria and fungi with small effective population sizes.

    Megan Woolfit;Lindell Bromham

  • Parasitic plants have increased rates of molecular evolution across all three genomes

    Lindell Bromham;Peter F Cowman;Robert Lanfear

  • Molecular Clocks in Reptiles: Life History Influences Rate of Molecular Evolution

    Lindell Bromham

  • The power of relative rates tests depends on the data

    Lindell Bromham;David Penny;Andrew Rambaut;Michael D. Hendy

  • Testing the relationship between morphological and molecular rates of change along phylogenies.

    Lindell Bromham;Lindell Bromham;Megan Woolfit;Megan Woolfit;Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee;Andrew Rambaut

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Lanfear
Robert Lanfear Australian National University
Marcel Cardillo
Marcel Cardillo Australian National University
John J. Welch
John J. Welch Washington University in St. Louis
Simon J. Greenhill
Simon J. Greenhill Max Planck Society
Simon Y. W. Ho
Simon Y. W. Ho University of Sydney
David Penny
David Penny Massey University
Timothy J. Flowers
Timothy J. Flowers University of Sussex
Peter F. Cowman
Peter F. Cowman James Cook University
Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland

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