Y. Pichkar

Detecting cultural evolution in a songbird species using community-science data and computational modeling

The paper analyzes chipping sparrow song data over nearly seven decades and uses an agent-based model to infer song-learning strategies, finding low copy-error rates and rejecting neutral or conformity-based transmission.

Fine-scale cultural variation reinforces genetic structure in England

The paper examines whether dialect-level linguistic differences in England influence genetic population structure by analyzing spatially dense linguistic and genetic data.

Accounting for diverse evolutionary forces reveals the mosaic nature of selection on genomic regions associated with human preterm birth

The paper develops an approach to analyze evolutionary forces on genomic regions linked to preterm birth and finds diverse signatures like negative and positive selection.