Items where Author is "Sear, R"
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2018
Coall, DA;
Hilbrand, S;
Sear, R;
Hertwig, R;
(2018)
Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment: a journey towards causality.
Contemporary social science, 13 (2).
pp. 159-174.
ISSN 2158-2041
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1433317
Hedges, Sophie;
Sear, Rebecca;
Todd, Jim;
Urassa, Mark;
Lawson, David W;
(2018)
Trade-Offs in Children’s Time Allocation: Mixed Support for Embodied Capital Models of the Demographic Transition in Tanzania.
Current Anthropology, 59 (5).
pp. 644-654.
ISSN 0011-3204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/699880
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Hruschka, DJ;
Sear, R;
Hackman, J;
Drake, A;
(2018)
Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal parities.
Population studies.
pp. 1-17.
ISSN 0032-4728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1513164
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2017
Brown, LJ;
Sear, R;
(2017)
Local environmental quality positively predicts breastfeeding in the UK's Millennium Cohort Study.
Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2017 (1).
pp. 120-135.
ISSN 2050-6201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox011
Lawson, DW;
Nuñez-de la Mora, A;
Cooper, GD;
Prentice, AM;
Moore, SE;
Sear, R;
(2017)
Marital Status and Sleeping Arrangements Predict Salivary Testosterone Levels in Rural Gambian Men.
Adaptive human behavior and physiology.
ISSN 2198-7335
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0066-z
Schaffnit, SB;
Sear, R;
(2017)
Support for new mothers and fertility in the United Kingdom: Not all support is equal in the decision to have a second child.
Population studies.
pp. 1-17.
ISSN 0032-4728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2017.1349924
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Schaffnit, SB;
Sear, R;
(2017)
Supportive families versus support from families: The decision to have a child in the Netherlands.
Demographic research, 37.
pp. 417-453.
ISSN 1435-9871
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.14
Sear, R;
Schaffnit, SB;
(2017)
It's not just about the future: The present payoffs to behaviour vary in degree and kind between the rich and the poor.
The Behavioral and brain sciences, 40.
e342.
ISSN 0140-525X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1700111X
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Streeter, LJ;
Sear, R;
(2017)
Local environmental quality positively predicts breastfeeding in the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study.
Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 2017 (1).
pp. 120-135.
ISSN 2050-6201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox011
Wells, JCK;
Nesse, RM;
Sear, R;
Johnstone, RA;
Stearns, SC;
(2017)
Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept.
Lancet, 390 (10093).
pp. 500-509.
ISSN 0140-6736
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30572-X
2016
Coall, DA;
Hilbrand, S;
Sear, R;
Hertwig, R;
(2016)
A New Niche? The Theory of Grandfather Involvement.
In: Buchanan, Ann; Rotkirch, Anna, (eds.)
Grandfathers: Global Perspectives.
Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 21-44.
ISBN 9781137563385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56338-5_2
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Mattison, SM;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology : Introduction to the Special Issue.
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY).
ISSN 1045-6767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-016-9270-y
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Moya, C;
Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2016)
What do men want? Re-examining whether men benefit from higher fertility than is optimal for women.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological sciences, 371 (1692).
ISSN 0962-8436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0149
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Pepper, G;
McAllister, L;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Why demography needs psychologists.
The Psychologist, 29 (1).
pp. 26-29.
ISSN 0952-8229
https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/janua...
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Sear, R;
Lawson, DW;
Kaplan, H;
Shenk, MK;
(2016)
Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography?
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological sciences, 371 (1692).
ISSN 0962-8436
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144
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Sheppard, P;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate.
Royal Society open science, 3 (4).
p. 160069.
ISSN 2054-5703
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160069
Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Does grandparental help mediate the relationship between kin presence and fertility?
Demographic research, 34.
pp. 467-498.
ISSN 1435-9871
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.17
Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Does grandparental help mediate the relationship between kin presence and fertility?
Demographic Research, 34 (17).
pp. 467-498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.17
Stulp, G;
Sear, R;
Barrett, L;
(2016)
The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters.
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY).
ISSN 1045-6767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-016-9269-4
Stulp, G;
Sear, R;
Schaffnit, SB;
Mills, MC;
Barrett, L;
(2016)
The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II : The Association between Wealth and Fertility.
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY).
ISSN 1045-6767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-016-9272-9
Virgo, S;
Sear, R;
(2016)
Area-level mortality and morbidity predict ‘abortion proportion’ in England and Wales.
Evolution and human behavior.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.03.001
2015
Sear, R;
(2015)
Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility.
Population studies, 69 Sup.
S39-55.
ISSN 0032-4728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.982905
Sear, R;
(2015)
Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting.
Current opinion in psychology, 7.
pp. 98-103.
ISSN 2352-250X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.013
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Sear, R;
(2015)
How we do it: the evolution and future of human reproduction.
Population studies, 69 (1).
pp. 126-7.
ISSN 0032-4728
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.969574
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Sear, R;
(2015)
Sociobiology.
In: Whelehan, Patricia; Bolin, Anne, (eds.)
The international encyclopedia of human sexuality.
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA, pp. 1333-1334.
ISBN 9781405190060
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2312538
Sear, R;
(2015)
Evolutionary Demography: A Darwinian Renaissance in Demography.
In: Wright, JamesD, (ed.)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition).
Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 406-412.
ISBN 978-0-08-097087-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.81057-0
Sheppard, P;
Garcia, JR;
Sear, R;
(2015)
Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty?
Evolution, medicine, and public health.
ISSN 2050-6201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov028
Sheppard, P;
Pearce, MS;
Sear, R;
(2015)
How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development.
American journal of human biology.
ISSN 1042-0533
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22793
Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2015)
Grandparental help in Indonesia is directed preferentially towards needier descendants: A potential confounder when exploring grandparental influences on child health.
Social science & medicine (1982), 128C.
pp. 105-114.
ISSN 0277-9536
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.012
2014
Felisberti, FM;
Sear, R;
(2014)
Postdoctoral Researchers in the UK: A Snapshot at Factors Affecting Their Research Output.
PloS one, 9 (4).
e93890.
ISSN 1932-6203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093890
Moya, C;
Sear, R;
(2014)
Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans.
PeerJ, 2.
e512.
ISSN 2167-8359
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.512
Schaffnit, SB;
Sear, R;
(2014)
Wealth modifies relationships between kin and women’s fertility in high-income countries.
Behavioral ecology, 25 (4).
pp. 834-842.
ISSN 1045-2249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru059
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Sheppard, P;
Garcia, JR;
Sear, R;
(2014)
A not-so-grim tale: how childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical u.s. Population.
PloS one, 9 (3).
e89539.
ISSN 1932-6203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089539
Sheppard, P;
Schaffnit, SB;
Garcia, JR;
Sear, R;
(2014)
Fostering relations: first sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers.
Evolution and human behavior, 35 (3).
pp. 161-168.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.12.002
Sheppard, P;
Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2014)
Father Absence and Reproduction-Related Outcomes in Malaysia, a Transitional Fertility Population.
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY).
ISSN 1045-6767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9195-2
Snopkowski, K;
Moya, C;
Sear, R;
(2014)
A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups.
Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281 (1788).
ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0580
2013
Mathews, P;
Sear, R;
(2013)
Family and Fertility: Kin Influence on the Progression to a Second Birth in the British Household Panel Study.
PLoS One, 8 (3).
ISSN 1932-6203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056941
Mathews, P;
Sear, R;
(2013)
Does the kin orientation of a British woman's social network influence her entry into motherhood?
Demographic Research, 28.
pp. 313-340.
ISSN 1435-9871
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.11
Nettle, D;
Gibson, MA;
Lawson, DW;
Sear, R;
(2013)
Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects.
Behavioral ecology, 24 (5).
pp. 1031-1040.
ISSN 1045-2249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ars222
Nettle, D;
Gibson, MA;
Lawson, DW;
Sear, R;
(2013)
Response: how much you need to engage with mechanism depends on what you are trying to do.
Behavioral ecology, 24 (5).
pp. 1046-1047.
ISSN 1045-2249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/art020
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Snopkowski, K;
Sear, R;
(2013)
Kin influences on fertility in Thailand: Effects and mechanisms.
Evolution and human behavior, 34 (2).
pp. 130-138.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.11.004
2012
Sheppard, P;
Sear, R;
(2012)
Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men.
Biology letters, 8 (2).
pp. 237-40.
ISSN 1744-9561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0747
2011
Brown, G;
Dickins, TE;
Sear, R;
Laland, KN;
(2011)
Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 366.
pp. 313-324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0267
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Sear, R;
(2011)
Parenting and families.
In: Swami, V, (ed.)
Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction.
Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 215-250.
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20984
Sear, R;
Coall, DA;
(2011)
How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition.
Population and development review, 37 (Supple).
pp. 81-112.
ISSN 0098-7921
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00379.x
2010
Fox, M;
Sear, R;
Beise, J;
Ragsdale, G;
Voland, E;
Knapp, LA;
(2010)
Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality.
Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 277 (1681).
pp. 567-573.
ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1660
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Gibson, MA;
Sear, R;
(2010)
Does wealth increase parental investment biases in child education? Evidence from two African populations on the cusp of the fertility transition.
Current anthropology, 51 (5).
pp. 693-701.
ISSN 0011-3204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/655954
Gurven, M;
Borgerhoff Mulder, M;
Hooper, PL;
Kaplan, H;
Quinlan, R;
Sear, R;
Schniter, E;
von Rueden, C;
Bowles, S;
Hertz, T;
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Bell, A;
(2010)
Domestication alone does not lead to inequality: intergenerational wealth transmission among horticulturalists.
Current anthropology, 51 (1).
pp. 49-64.
ISSN 0011-3204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/648587
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Sear, R;
(2010)
We are family: Review of 'Mothers and Others' by Sarah Hrdy.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7 (4).
pp. 355-357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.7.2009.4.9
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Sear, R;
(2010)
Height and reproductive success: is bigger always better?
In: Frey, U; Stoermer, C; Willfuehr, K, (eds.)
Homo Novus: A Human Without Illusions.
Springer, pp. 127-143.
ISBN 978-3-642-12141-8
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21116
Sear, R;
Dickins, TE;
(2010)
The generation game is the cooperation game: the role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction.
Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 33 (1).
pp. 34-35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991725
2009
Borgerhoff Mulder, M;
Bowles, S;
Hertz, T;
Bell, A;
Beise, J;
Clark, G;
Fazzio, I;
Gurven, M;
Hill, K;
Hooper, PL;
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Irons, W;
Kaplan, H;
Leonetti, D;
Low, B;
Marlowe, F;
McElreath, R;
Naidu, S;
Nolin, D;
Piraino, P;
Quinlan, R;
Schniter, E;
Sear, R;
Shenk, M;
Smith, EA;
von Rueden, C;
Wiessner, P;
(2009)
Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.
Science (New York, NY), 326 (5953).
pp. 682-688.
ISSN 0036-8075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1178336
Sear, R;
Mace, R;
(2009)
Family matters: kin, demography and child health in a rural Gambian population.
In: Bentley, GR; Mace, R, (eds.)
Substitute Parents: Alloparenting in Human Societies.
Berghahn Books, pp. 50-76.
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20991
Sear, R;
Marlowe, FW;
(2009)
How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate.
Biology letters, 5.
pp. 606-609.
ISSN 1744-9561
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0342
2008
Mathews, P;
Sear, R;
(2008)
Life after death: An investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6 (3).
pp. 155-172.
ISSN 1789-2082
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.3.1
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Sear, R;
(2008)
Kin and child survival in rural Malawi - Are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society?
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 19 (3).
pp. 277-293.
ISSN 1045-6767
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9042-4
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Sear, R;
Mace, R;
(2008)
Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival.
Evolution and human behavior, 29 (1).
pp. 1-18.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.10.001
2007
Dickins, TE;
Sear, R;
Wells, AJ;
(2007)
Mind the gap(s)....in theory, method and data: Re-examining Kanazawa.
British journal of health psychology, 12.
pp. 167-178.
ISSN 1359-107X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1348/135910707X174339
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Sear, R;
(2007)
The impact of reproduction on Gambian women: does controlling for phenotypic quality reveal costs of reproduction?
American journal of physical anthropology, 132 (4).
pp. 632-641.
ISSN 0002-9483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20558
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Sear, R;
Lawson, DW;
Dickins, TE;
(2007)
Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences.
Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5 (1).
pp. 3-28.
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21030
Shanley, DP;
Sear, R;
Mace, R;
Kirkwood, TBL;
(2007)
Testing evolutionary theories of menopause.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274 (1628).
pp. 2943-2949.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1028
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2006
Mace, R;
Allal, N;
Sear, R;
Prentice, A;
(2006)
The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community: the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years.
In: Wells, JCK; Strickland, SS; Laland, KN, (eds.)
Social Information Transmission and Human Biology.
CRC Press, Florida, pp. 191-205.
ISBN 9780849340475
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20986
Sear, R;
(2006)
Size-dependent reproductive success in Gambian men: does height or weight matter more?
Social biology, 53 (3-4).
pp. 172-188.
ISSN 0037-766X
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20964
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Sear, R;
(2006)
Height and reproductive success: how a Gambian population compares to the West.
Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 17 (4).
pp. 405-418.
ISSN 1045-6767
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20989
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2005
Mace, R;
Sear, R;
(2005)
Are humans cooperative breeders?
In: Voland, E; Chasiotis, A; Schiefenhoevel, W, (eds.)
Grandmotherhood: the Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life.
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, pp. 143-159.
ISBN 9780813536095
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21153
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Sear, R;
(2005)
Review of Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality.
Sexualities, Evolution and Gender, 7 (2).
pp. 189-193.
ISSN 1479-2508
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616660500173511
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2004
Allal, N;
Sear, R;
Prentice, AM;
Mace, R;
(2004)
An evolutionary model of stature, age at first birth and reproductive success in Gambian women.
Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 271 (1538).
pp. 465-70.
ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623
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Sear, R;
Allal, N;
Mace, R;
(2004)
Height, marriage and reproductive success in Gambian women.
Research in Economic Anthropology, 23.
pp. 203-224.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1
2003
Holden, CJ;
Sear, R;
Mace, R;
(2003)
Matriliny as daughter-biased investment.
Evolution and human behavior, 24.
pp. 99-112.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00122-8
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Sear, R;
MacE, R;
McGregor, IA;
(2003)
The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia.
Evolution and human behavior, 24.
pp. 25-42.
ISSN 1090-5138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00105-8
Sear, R;
MacE, R;
McGregor, IA;
(2003)
A life-history approach to fertility rates in rural Gambia: evidence for trade-offs or phenotypic correlations?
In: Rodgers, JL; Kohler, HP, (eds.)
The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, pp. 135-160.
http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20974
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2002
Sear, R;
Steele, F;
McGregor, IA;
MacE, R;
(2002)
The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia.
Demography, 39 (1).
pp. 43-63.
ISSN 0070-3370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0010
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2001
Sear, R;
Mace, R;
Shanley, D;
McGregor, IA;
(2001)
The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia.
Journal of evolutionary biology, 14.
pp. 433-443.
ISSN 1010-061X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00287.x
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