Patrik Lindenfors

Scientific Articles

More than 4,500 citations according to Google Scholar.

• Lindenfors P 2024 Res Cogitans – The Evolution of Thinking. Biosemiotics 17: 655-670.
• Alldritt S, Ramirez JS, de Wael RV, Bethlehem R, Seidlitz J, Wang Z, Nenning K, Esper NB, Smallwood J, …Lindenfors P… & Xu T 2024 Brain Charts for the Rhesus Macaque Lifespan. bioRxiv Aug. 30.
• Wilson MC, Maerz SF, Lindenfors P, Edgell AB, Boese V & Lindberg SI 2023 Episodes of liberalization in autocracies: a new approach to quantitatively studying democratization. Political Science Research and Methods 11: 501-520.
• Edgell AB, Maerz SF, Maxwell L, Morgan R, Medzihorsky J, Wilson MC, Boese VA, Hellmeier S, Lachapelle J, Lindenfors P, Lührmann A & Lindberg SI 2022 Episodes of Regime Transformation Dataset (v4.0) & Codebook. Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project. Available at https://github.com/vdeminstitute/ert.
• Lindenfors P, Wartel A & Lind J 2021 Dunbar’s number deconstructed. Biology Letters 17: 20210158.
• Edgell AB, Boese VA, Maerz SF, Lindenfors P & Lindberg SI 2021 The institutional order of liberalization. British Journal of Political Science 52: 1465–1471.
• Lindenfors P, Wilson MC & Lindberg SI 2020 The Matthew effect in political science: head start and key reforms important for democratization. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7: 106.
• Lindberg SI, Mechkova V, Kavasoglu B & Lindenfors P 2020 DRG-LER II: Sequences of democracy and development. USAID Center for Democracy and Governance & NORC at the University of Chicago, September.
• Leroi AM, Lambert B, Mauch M, Papadopoulou M, Ananiadou S, Lindberg SI & Lindenfors P 2020 On revolutions. Palgrave Communications 6: article number 4.
• The PRIMatE Data Exchange (PRIME-DE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium 2020 Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging. Neuron 105: P600-P603.
• Wartel A, Lindenfors P & Lind J 2019 Whatever you want: Inconsistent results are the rule, not the exception, in the study of primate brain evolution. PLoS ONE 14: e0218655.
• Lindenfors P 2019 Divine placebo: Health and the evolution of religion. Human Ecology 47: 157-163.
• Lindenfors P, Krusell J & Lindberg SI 2019 Sequential requisites analysis: a new method for analyzing sequential relationships in ordinal data. Social Science Quarterly 100: 838-856.
• Lindenfors P 2018 Primate social evolution. In: Callan H (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
• Navarrete AF, Blezer ELA, Pagnotta M, Lindenfors P, Laland KN & Reader S 2018 Primate brain anatomy: New volumetric MRI measurements for neuroanatomical studies. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 91: 1–9. Erratum.
• Milham MP, Ai L, Koo B, Xu T, Amiez C, Balezeau F, Baxter MG, Blezer ELA, Brochier T, Chen A, Croxson PL, Damatac CG, Dehaene S, Everling S, Fair DA, Fleysher L, Freiwald W, Froudist-Walsh S, Griffiths TD, Guedj C, Hadj-Bouziane F, Hamed SB, Harel N, Hiba B, Jarraya B, Jung B, Kastner S, Klink PC, Kwok SC, Laland KN, Leopold DA, Lindenfors P, Mars RB, Menon RS, Messinger A, Meunier M, Mok K, Morrison JH, Nacef J, Nagy J, Rios MO, Petkov CI, Pinsk M, Poirier C, Procyk E, Rajimehr R, Reader SM, Roelfsema PR, Rudko DA, Rushworth MFS, Russ BE, Sallet J, Schmid MC, Schwiedrzik CM, Seidlitz J, Sein J, Shmuel A, Sullivan EL, Ungerleider L, Thiele A, Todorov OS, Tsao D, Wang S, Wilson CRE, Yacoub E, Ye FQ, Zarco W, Zhou Y, Margulies DS & Schroeder CE 2018 An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Imaging. Neuron 100: 61-74.
• Lindenfors P, Jansson F, Wang Y-T & Lindberg SI 2018 Investigating sequences in ordinal data: A new approach with adapted evolutionary models. Political Science Research and Methods 6: 449-466.
• Lindenfors P & Svensson J 2017 Stora gudar, heliga kor och människans överlevnad. Evolutionära förklaringar på religion. Pages 19-36 in: Björkman J & Jarrick A (eds.) Religionen tur och retur. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond årsbok 2017/2018. Stockholm: Makadam förlag.
• Wang Y-T, Lindenfors P, Sundström A, Jansson F, Paxton P & Lindberg SI 2017 Women's rights in democratic transitions: a global sequence analysis 1900-2012. European Journal of Political Research 56: 735–756.
• Lindenfors P 2017 “Mem” and “Memetik” In: Nationalencyklopedin.
• Lindenfors P 2016 Evolutionära förklaringar av religion. Pages 2-22 in: Thurfjell D (ed.) Varför finns religion? Stockholm: Molin & Sorgenfrei.
• Ross CT, Strimling P, Ericksen KP, Lindenfors P & Borgerhoff Mulder M 2016 The origins and maintenance of female genital modification across Africa: Bayesian phylogenetic modeling of cultural evolution under the influence of selection. Human Nature 27: 173-200.
• Lindenfors P, Envall I, Isaksson S & Enquist M 2015 An empirical study of cultural evolution: the development of European cookery from medieval to modern times. Cliodynamics 6: 115-129.
• Isaksson S, Funcke A, Envall I, Enquist M & Lindenfors P 2015 A novel method to analyze social transmission in chronologically sequenced assemblages, implemented on cultural inheritance of the art of cooking. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0122092.
• Lind J, Lindenfors P, Ghirlanda S, Lidén K & Enquist M 2013 Dating human cultural capacity using phylogenetic principles. Scientific Reports 3: 1785.
• Kodandaramaiah U, Lindenfors P & Tullberg BS 2013 Deflective and intimidating eyespots: a comparative study of eyespot size and position in Junonia butterflies. Ecology and Evolution 3: 4518-4524.
• Lindenfors P 2013 The Green Beards of Language. Ecology and Evolution 3: 1104–1112.
• Jansson F, Lindenfors P & Sandberg M 2013 Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: rapid adoption and survival of democracy. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 80: 1546–1556.
• Lindenfors P, Lind J & Enquist M 2012 Det unikt mänskliga. Pages 31-44 in: Husz, O, Myrdal J, Tydén M, Wallenberg Bondesson M (eds). Människans kunskap och kunskapen om människan: En gränslös historia. Lund: Sekel Bokförlag.
• Lindenfors P, Jansson F & Sandberg M 2011 The cultural evolution of democracy: saltational changes in a political regime landscape. PLoS ONE 6: e28270.
• Lindenfors P & Tullberg BS 2011 Evolutionary aspects of aggression: the importance of sexual selection. Pages 7-22 in: Huber R, Bannasch DL & Brennan P (eds) Aggression: Advances in Genetics, Vol. 75. Burlington: Academic Press.
• Lindenfors P, Revell LJ & Nunn CL 2010 Sexual dimorphism in primate aerobic capacity: a phylogenetic test. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23: 1183-1194.
• Lind J & Lindenfors P 2010 The number of cultural traits is correlated with female group size but not with male group size in chimpanzee communities. PLoS ONE 5: e9241.
• Nunn CL, Lindenfors P, Pursall R & Rolff J 2009 On sexual dimorphism in immune function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B: Biological Sciences 364: 61-69.
• Gustafsson A & Lindenfors P 2009 Latitudinal patterns in human stature and sexual stature dimorphism. Annals of Human Biology 36: 74-87.
• Lindenfors P, Nunn CL, & Barton RA 2007 Primate brain architecture and selection in relation to sex. BMC Biology 5: 20. - press
• Lindenfors P 2007 Studying students in Montessori schools. Science 315: 596. (Lindenfors P 2007 Measuring Montessori school performance. (E-letter) Science 24 May. )
• Gustafsson A, Werdelin L, Tullberg BS & Lindenfors P 2007 Stature and sexual stature dimorphism in Sweden, from the 10th to the end of the 20th century. American Journal of Human Biology 19: 861-870.
• Lindenfors P, Gittleman JL & Jones KE 2007 Sexual size dimorphism in mammals. Pages 19-26 in: Fairbairn DJ, Blanckenhorn WU & Szekely T (eds) Sex, size and gender roles: evolutionary studies of sexual size dimorphism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lindenfors P, Nunn CL, Jones KE, Cunningham A, Sechrest W & Gittleman JL 2007 Parasite species richness in carnivores: effects of host body mass, latitude, geographic range and population density. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16: 496-509.
• Altizer S, Nunn CL & Lindenfors P 2007 Do threatened hosts have fewer parasites? A comparative study in primates. Journal of Animal Ecology 76: 304-314. Appendix
• Lindenfors P 2006 A method for adjusting means and variances of comparative data for use in a phylogenetic analysis of variance. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 975-995.
• Lindenfors P & Tullberg BS 2006 Lowering sample size in comparative analyses can indicate a correlation where there is none: example from Rensch’s rule in primates. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 1346-1351.
• Thorén S, Lindenfors P & Kappeler PM 2006 Phylogenetic analyses of dimorphism in primates: evidence for stronger selection on canine size than on body size. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 130: 50-59.
• Lindenfors P 2005 Neocortex evolution in primates: the 'social brain' is for females. Biology Letters 1: 407-410. - press
• Gustafsson A & Lindenfors P 2004 Human size evolution: no allometric relationship between male and female stature. Journal of Human Evolution 47: 253-266.
• Lindenfors P, Fröberg L & Nunn CL 2004 Females drive primate social evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences 271: S101-S103. - press
• Lindenfors P, Székely T & Reynolds JD 2003 Directional changes in sexual size dimorphism in shorebirds, gulls and alcids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 930-938.
• Lindenfors P, Dalén L & Angerbjörn A 2003 A monophyletic origin of delayed implantation and its implications. Evolution 57: 1952-1956.
• Lindenfors P, Tullberg B & Biuw M 2002 Phylogenetic analyses of sexual selection and sexual size dimorphism in pinnipeds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 52: 188-193.
• Lindenfors P 2002 Sexually antagonistic selection on primate size. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 595-607. Appendix
• Lindenfors P 2002 Phylogenetic analyses of sexual size dimorphism. PhD thesis, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University.
• Lindenfors P & Tullberg BS 1998 Phylogenetic analyses of primate size evolution: the consequences of sexual selection. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 64: 413-447.
• Johnson P (bachelor name) & Johnstone R 1995 Productivity and nutrient dynamics of tropical seagrass communities in Puttalam Lagoon, Sri Lanka. Ambio 24: 411-417.