NISHIKAWA Yuri
Staff Members
NISHIKAWA Yuri
Project Research Fellow
Department of Globalization and Humanity
| Research Specialization | Cultural evolution, biological anthropology |
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| Individual Research Projects | Quantitative analysis of ethnographic data |
Academic Qualifications
- B.S. in Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 2015
- M.S. in Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 2018
- Ph.D. in Science, The University of Tokyo, 2025
Research Keywords
Cultural evolution; ethnographic data; Buddha statues; human-mediated plant dispersal; folk songs of the Ryukyu Archipelago
Current Research Topics
- Quantitative analysis of ethnographic data
- Regional diversity in the facial morphology of Buddha statues
- Inference of human-mediated plant dispersal using linguistic data
- Cultural transmission and melodic diversification of folk songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago
Selected Publications
| 2025 | McBride, J. M., Kim, N., Nishikawa, Y., Saadakeev, M., Pearce, M. T., & Tlusty, T. (2025). Information and motor constraints shape melodic diversity across cultures. arXiv preprint, arXiv:2408.12635. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2408.12635 |
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| 2025 | Nishikawa, Y., & Ihara, Y. (2025). Exploring factors for melodic diversification of folk songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 7, e23, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10010 |
| 2024 | Morita, M., Nishikawa, Y., & Tokumasu, Y. (2024). Human musical capacity and products should have been induced by the hominin-specific combination of several biosocial features: a three-phase scheme on socio-ecological, cognitive, and cultural evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology, 33, e22031. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22031 |
| 2022 | Nishikawa, Y., & Ihara, Y. (2022). Cultural transmission of traditional songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago. PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0270354. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270354 |
| 2021 | Nishikawa, Y., & Ishida, T. (2021). Genetic lineage of the Amami islanders inferred from classical genetic markers. Meta Gene, 30, 100956. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mgene.2021.100956 |