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1) * Lachlan, R.F., Verhagen, L., Peters, S. and ten Cate, C. (Submitted) The existence of natural categories in bird song.
2) Brumm, H., Lachlan, R.F., Riebel, K.; and Slater, P.J.B. (Submitted) On the function of song type repertoires: testing the ‘anti-exhaustion hypothesis’ in chaffinches.
3) Holveck, M.-J.; Vieira de Castro, A.; Lachlan, R.F.; ten Cate, C.; Riebel, K. (Provisionally accepted) Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches. Behavioural Ecology.
4) ** Landsbergen, F.; Lachlan R.F.; ten Cate, C.J. and Verhagen, A. (Provisionally accepted) A cultural evolutionary of patterns in semantic change. Linguistics.
5) * Lachlan R.F. (In Press) The evolution of flexibility in bird song. In: “Contextual flexibility in communication” Griebel U. & Oller, K. (Eds). MIT Press, Cambridge, USA.
6) ** Verzijden M.N., Lachlan R.F. & Servedio M.R. (2005) Female mate choice behaviour and sympatric speciation. Evolution 59: 2097-2108
7) * Lachlan R.F. (2005) Bird song dialects. In: “The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics” 2nd Edition K. Brown (ed). Elsevier, Oxford UK, p. 538.
8) ** Terry A.M.R. and Lachlan R.F. (2005) Communication networks in a virtual world: a theoretical perspective. In: “Communication networks” P.K.McGregor (ed). Oxford University Press, Oxford UK
9) * Lachlan R.F. and Servedio M.R. (2004) Song learning accelerates allopatric speciation. Evolution 58: 2049-2063.
10) * Lachlan R.F.; Janik V.M. and Slater P.J.B. (2004) The evolution of conformity enforcing behaviour in cultural communication systems. Animal Behaviour 68: 561-570.
11) * Lachlan R.F. and Slater P.J.B. (2003) Song learning by chaffinches: how accurately and from where? Animal Behaviour 65: 957-969.
12) ** Slater P.J.B. and Lachlan R.F. (2003) Is innovation in bird song adaptive? In: “The biology of innovation” Laland, K.N. and Reader, S. (eds). Oxford University Press, Oxford UK: 117-136.
13) * Lachlan R.F. and Feldman M.W. (2003) Evolution of cultural communication systems: the coevolution of cultural signals and genes encoding learning preferences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 16: 1084-1095.
14) * Katz M. and Lachlan R.F. (2003) Social learning of food types in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) is directed by demonstrator sex and feeding activity. Animal Cognition 6: 11-16.
15) Benskin C.M.H, Mann N.I., Lachlan R.F., and Slater, P.J.B. (2002) Social learning directs feeding in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Animal Behaviour 64: 823-828.
16) Slater P.J.B., Lachlan R.F., Riebel K. (2000) The significance of learning in signal development: the curious case of the chaffinch. In: Animal Signals. Adaptive significance of signalling and signal design in animal communication. Espmark Y., Amundsen T. and Rosenqvist G. (eds). Tapir Publishers, Trondheim, Norway. 401-413.
17) * Lachlan R.F. (1999) Cultural evolution of bird song, in theory and in chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs). PhD Thesis, University of St. Andrews.
18) * Lachlan R.F and Slater P.J.B. (1999) The maintenance of vocal learning by gene-culture interaction: the cultural trap hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266: 701-706.
19) Hoffmeister T.S., Lachlan R.F. and Roitberg B.D. (1999) Do larger fruits provide a partial refuge for rose-hip flies against parasitoids? Journal of Insect Behaviour 12: 451-460.
20) * Lachlan R.F., Crooks L and Laland K.N. (1998) Who follows whom? Shoaling preferences and social learning of foraging information in guppies Animal Behaviour 56: 181-190.
Publications marked * represent those in which I was the principal co-author (i.e. I made the largest contribution to the paper). Publications marked ** represent those in which I was the joint principal co-author with one other co-author.