Publications
Unravelling the genetic architecture of musical rhythm. Niarchou M, Sathirapongsasuti JF, Jacoby N, Bell E, McArthur E, Straub P, The 23andMe Research Team, McAuley JD, Capra JA, Ullén F, Creanza N, Mosing MA, Hinds D, Davis LK, Gordon RL. Under review. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/836197.
Hudson EJ, Creanza N, Shizuka D. The role of early acoustic experience in song discrimination. In revision. bioRXiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/756445.
Searfoss AM, Pino JC, Creanza N. Chipper: Open-source software for semi-automated segmentation and analysis of birdsong and other natural sounds. Accepted. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/807974.
Searfoss AM, Liu WC, Creanza N. Geographically well-distributed citizen science data reveals range-wide variation in the chipping sparrow’s simple song. In press. Animal Behaviour.
Tung TA, Smith RWA, Creanza N, Monroe C, Bolnick DA, Kemp BA (2019). Constrained Agency and Negotiating Spanish Colonialism: A Bioarchaeological, Isotopic, and Ancient DNA Study of the Vinchos Cave Mummies, Ayacucho, Peru. In press. Bioarchaeology International.
Robinson CM*, Snyder KT*, Creanza N (2019). Correlated evolution of repertoire size and song plasticity predicts that sexual selection promotes open-ended learning. eLife 8, e44454. *Contributed equally.
Online press: eLife digest, VU Research highlight, The Conversation.
Surowiec A, Snyder KT, Creanza N (2019). A worldwide view of matriliny: Using genetic data to shed light on the evolution of human kinship systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1780), 20180077.
Robinson CM, Creanza N (2019). Species‐level repertoire size predicts a correlation between individual song elaboration and reproductive success. Ecology and Evolution. 9 (14), 8362-8377.
Greenbaum, G., Fogarty, L., Colleran, H., Berger-Tal, O., Kolodny, O., & Creanza, N. (2019). Are both necessity and opportunity the mothers of innovations? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.
Sherriah AC, Thomas EAC, Devonish H, Creanza N (2019). The English words in Sranan: from where, from whom, and how? The Routledge Companion to the Work of John R. Rickford. Editors: Blake R, Buchstaller I.
Greenbaum G, Truskanov N, Creanza N, Edelman S, Feldman MW, and Kolodny O (2019). Separating Social Learning from Technical Skill Provides a New Perspective on the Record of Hominin Tool Use. Current Anthropology 60 (3), 327-328.
Fogarty L, Creanza N, Feldman MW (2019). The life history of learning predicts population-level effects of cultural transmission. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(4), e1006821.
Snyder KT, Creanza N (2019). Food-seeking behavior has complex evolutionary pressures in songbirds: linking parental foraging to offspring sexual selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42.
Snyder KT, Creanza N. Polygyny is linked to accelerated birdsong evolution but not to larger song repertoires. Nature Communications 10 (1), 884. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08621-3.
Online press: Nature “Behind the paper” blog, The Conversation, AP, Inverse, VU Research highlight
Carja O, Creanza N. The evolutionary advantage of cultural memory on heterogeneous contact networks. Theoretical Population Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2018.09.006
Altenberg L, Creanza N, Fogarty L, Hadany L, Kolodny O, Laland KN, Lehmann L, Otto SP, Rosenberg NA, Van Cleve J, Wakeley J, 2018. Some topics in theoretical population genetics: Editorial commentaries on a selection of Marc Feldman’s TPB papers. Theoretical Population Biology.
Creanza N. (2018) Predicting societal-level cultural change. Nature Human Behavior. (News and Views). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-018-0379-3.
Kolodny O, Feldman MW, Creanza N (2018). Bridging cultural gaps: the interdisciplinary nature of cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: 20170413.
Sherriah AC, Thomas EAC, Devonish H, Creanza N (2018). Using features of a Creole language to reconstruct population history: tracing the English origins of Sranan in Suriname. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London : 20170055.
Online press: Anthropology.net, Parsing Science podcast, The Conversation, Scientific American, Ars Technica, other online media
Kolodny O, Feldman MW, Creanza N (2018). Integrative studies of cultural evolution: crossing disciplinary boundaries to produce new insights. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: 20170048.
Online press: VU Research highlight
Fogarty L, Creanza N (2017). The niche construction of cultural complexity: interactions between innovations, population size and the environment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372(1735):20160428.
Rathmann H, Reyes-Centeno H, Ghirotto S, Creanza N, Hanihara T, Harvati K (2017). Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports 7(1):12495.
Creanza N*, Kolodny O*, Feldman MW (2017). Cultural evolutionary theory: How culture evolves and why it matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(30):7782–9.
Archuleta TL, Frazier MN, Monken AE, Kendall AK, Harp J, McCoy AJ, Creanza N, Jackson LP (2017). Structure and evolution of ENTH and VHS/ENTH‐like domains in tepsin. Traffic 18(9), 590-603.
Creanza N*, Kolodny O*, Feldman MW (2017). Greater than the sum of its parts? Modeling population contact and interaction of cultural repertoires. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(130), 20170171. *Contributed equally.
Online press: Stanford Daily, Columbus Dispatch, Big Think
Kolodny O*, Creanza N*, Feldman MW (2016). Game-changing innovations: how culture can change the parameters of its own evolution, inducing abrupt cultural shifts. PLOS Computational Biology 12(12), e1005302. *Contributed equally.
Creanza N, Feldman MW (2016). Worldwide genetic and cultural change in human evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 41:85–92.
Creanza N, Fogarty L, Feldman MW (2016). Cultural niche construction of repertoire size and learning strategies in songbirds. Evolutionary Ecology 30:285–305.
Kolodny O*, Creanza N*, Feldman MW (2015). Evolution in leaps: the punctuated accumulation and loss of cultural innovations. *Contributed equally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 10.1073/pnas.1520492112.
Online press: The Conversation, Stanford Report
Fogarty L, Creanza N, Feldman MW (2015). Cultural evolutionary perspectives on creativity and human innovation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution: 10.1016/j.tree.2015.10.004.
Creanza N, Ruhlen M, Pemberton TJ, Rosenberg NA, Feldman MW, Ramachandran S (2015). A comparison of worldwide phonemic and genetic variation in human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:1265–1272.
Online press: The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Quartz.com, Serious Science, Ars Technica, Phys.org, Generation Anthropocene podcast, Stanford Report, Bioscholar, The Molecular Ecologist, Brown University News
Academic press: Hunley K (2015). Reassessment of global gene–language coevolution. PNAS 112(7), 1919–1920.
Research Highlight, Nature Reviews Genetics (2015) 16:128–129.
“In this Issue” (2015) PNAS 112(5):1239–1240.
Creanza N, Feldman MW (2014). Complexity in models of cultural niche construction with selection and homophily. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111:10830–10837.
Creanza N, Fogarty L, Feldman MW (2013). Exploring Cultural Niche Construction from the Paleolithic to Modern Hunter-Gatherers. In Dynamics of Learning in Neanderthals and Modern Humans Volume 1 (pp. 211–228). Springer Japan.
Fogarty L, Creanza N, Feldman MW (2013). The role of cultural transmission in human demographic change: an age-structured model. Theoretical Population Biology 88: 68–77.
Press M, Li H, Creanza N, Kramer G, Queitsch C, Sourjik V, Borenstein E (2013). Genome-scale co-evolutionary inference identifies functions and clients of bacterial Hsp90. PLoS Genetics 9: e1003631.
Creanza N*, Fogarty L*, Feldman, MW (2012). Models of niche construction with selection and assortative mating. *Contributed equally. PLoS ONE 7: e42722.
Creanza N*, Schwarz JS*, Cohen JE (2010). Intraseasonal dynamics and dominant sequences in H3N2 influenza. *Contributed equally. PLoS ONE 5: e8544.