Jaeggi, Adrian V; Martin, Jordan S; Floris, Joël; Bender, Nicole; Haeusler, Martin; Sear, Rebecca; Staub, Kaspar; (2022) Life-history tradeoffs in a historical population (1896-1939) undergoing rapid fertility decline: Costs of reproduction? Evolutionary human sciences, 4. ISSN 2513-843X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.2

Raybould, AG; (2022) Exploring the link between gendered division of labour and reproductive decision-making in high-income countries. PhD (research paper style) thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04665160

Sear, Rebecca; Prentice, Andrew M; Wells, Jonathan; (2022) Nutritional status and adult mortality in a mid-20^th century Gambian population: do different types of physical ‘capital’ have different associations with mortality? The History of the Family. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1081-602X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2022.2123842

Thurstans, Susan; Opondo, Charles; Seal, Andrew; Wells, Jonathan C; Khara, Tanya; Dolan, Carmel; Briend, André; Myatt, Mark; Garenne, Michel; Mertens, Andrew; +2 more... Sear, Rebecca; Kerac, Marko; (2022) Understanding Sex Differences in Childhood Undernutrition: A Narrative Review. Nutrients, 14 (5). p. 948. ISSN 2072-6643 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14050948

Walters, Sarah; Sear, Rebecca; (2022) Fertility and faith: The danger of a grand narrative. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12 (4). pp. 431-437. ISSN 2153-599X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2021.2023621 Item availability may be restricted.

Wells, Jonathan CK; Cole, Tim J; Cortina-Borja, Mario; Sear, Rebecca; Leon, David A; Marphatia, Akanksha A; Murray, Joseph; Wehrmeister, Fernando C; Oliveira, Paula D; Gonçalves, Helen; +2 more... Oliveira, Isabel O; Menezes, Ana Maria B; (2022) Life history trade-offs associated with exposure to low maternal capital are different in sons compared to daughters: Evidence from a prospective Brazilian birth cohort. Frontiers in public health, 10. 914965-. ISSN 2296-2565 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.914965

Zevallos-Roberts, Emilia; Cunningham, Kenda; Adhikari, Ramesh Prasad; Thapa, Basant; Sear, Rebecca; (2022) Beyond the mother-child dyad: Is co-residence with a grandmother associated with adolescent girls' family planning knowledge? PloS one, 17 (3). e0265276. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265276

Brown, Laura J; Sear, Rebecca; (2021) How do reproduction, parenting, and health cluster together? Exploring diverging destinies, life histories and weathering in two UK cohort studies. Advances in Life Course Research, 50. p. 100431. ISSN 1040-2608 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100431 Item availability may be restricted.

Hassan, A; (2021) Parental care, allomothering and child health in north-western Tanzania : who cares for children and does it matter? PhD (research paper style) thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04662098

Moya, Cristina; Goodman, Anna; Koupil, Ilona; Sear, Rebecca; (2021) Historical Context Changes Pathways of Parental Influence on Reproduction: An Empirical Test from 20th-Century Sweden. Social Sciences, 10 (7). p. 260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070260

Sear, Rebecca; (2021) The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the 'traditional' human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1827). p. 20200020. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0020

Sear, Rebecca; (2021) Demography and the rise, apparent fall, and resurgence of eugenics. Population studies, 75 (sup1). pp. 201-220. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.2009013

Shenk, Mary K; Morse, Anne; Mattison, Siobhán M; Sear, Rebecca; Alam, Nurul; Raqib, Rubhana; Kumar, Anjan; Haque, Farjana; Blumenfield, Tami; Shaver, John; +2 more... Sosis, Richard; Wander, Katherine; (2021) Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1827). 20200027-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0027

Shennan, Stephen; Sear, Rebecca; (2021) Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376 (1816). 20190711-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0711

Sigle, Wendy; Reid, Alice; Sear, Rebecca; (2021) 75 years of Population Studies: A diamond anniversary special issue. Population Studies, 75 (sup1). pp. 1-5. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.2006440 Item availability may be restricted.

Spake, Laure; Schaffnit, Susan B; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary K; Sosis, Richard; Shaver, John H; (2021) Mother’s Partnership Status and Allomothering Networks in the United Kingdom and United States. Social Sciences, 10 (5). p. 182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10050182

Hazel, Wade N; Black, Robert; Smock, Richard C; Sear, Rebecca; Tomkins, Joseph L; (2020) An age-dependent ovulatory strategy explains the evolution of dizygotic twinning in humans. Nature ecology & evolution, 4 (7). pp. 987-992. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1173-y

Raybould, Alyce; Sear, Rebecca; (2020) Children of the (gender) revolution: A theoretical and empirical synthesis of how gendered division of labour influences fertility. POPULATION STUDIES, 75 (2). pp. 169-190. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2020.1851748

Sear, Rebecca; (2020) Do human ‘life history strategies’ exist? Evolution and Human Behavior, 41 (6). pp. 513-526. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.004

Sear, Rebecca; (2020) Strengthening the evolutionary social sciences with more data, less ‘theory-worship’. Evolution and Human Behavior, 41 (5). pp. 462-463. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.07.010

Shaver, John H; Power, Eleanor A; Purzycki, Benjamin G; Watts, Joseph; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary K; Sosis, Richard; Bulbulia, Joseph A; (2020) Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 375 (1805). p. 20190428. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0428

Thurstans, Susan; Opondo, Charles; Seal, Andrew; Wells, Jonathan C; Khara, Tanya; Dolan, Carmel; Briend, André; Myatt, Mark; Garenne, Michel; Sear, Rebecca; +1 more... Kerac, Marko; (2020) Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ global health. ISSN 2059-7908 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.19.20196535

Thurstans, Susan; Opondo, Charles; Seal, Andrew; Wells, Jonathan; Khara, Tanya; Dolan, Carmel; Briend, André; Myatt, Mark; Garenne, Michel; Sear, Rebecca; +1 more... Kerac, Marko; (2020) Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition. BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH, 5 (12). e004030-e004030. ISSN 2059-7908 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004030

Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Towner, Mary C; Baldini, Ryan; Beheim, Bret A; Bowles, Samuel; Colleran, Heidi; Gurven, Michael; Kramer, Karen L; Mattison, Siobhán M; Nolin, David A; +6 more... Scelza, Brooke A; Schniter, Eric; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary K; Voland, Eckart; Ziker, John; (2019) Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 374 (1780). 20180076-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0076

Brown, Laura J; Sear, Rebecca; (2019) Are mothers less likely to breastfeed in harsh environments? Physical environmental quality and breastfeeding in the Born in Bradford study. Maternal & Child Nutrition, 15 (4). e12851-. ISSN 1740-8695 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12851

Hassan, Anushé; Schaffnit, Susan B; Sear, Rebecca; Urassa, Mark; Lawson, David W; (2019) Fathers favour sons, mothers don't discriminate: Sex-biased parental care in northwestern Tanzania. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1. 13-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.14

Hedges, Sophie; (2019) Children's work and parental investment in education in north-western Tanzania. PhD (research paper style) thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04652445

Hedges, Sophie; Lawson, David W; Todd, Jim; Urassa, Mark; Sear, Rebecca; (2019) Sharing the Load: How Do Coresident Children Influence the Allocation of Work and Schooling in Northwestern Tanzania? Demography, 56 (5). pp. 1931-1956. ISSN 0070-3370 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00818-x

Hedges, Sophie; Sear, Rebecca; Todd, Jim; Urassa, Mark; Lawson, David W; (2019) Earning their keep? Fostering, children's education, and work in north-western Tanzania. Demographic Research, 41. pp. 263-292. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2019.41.10

Sear, Rebecca; Sheppard, Paula; Coall, David A; (2019) Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374 (1770). 20180124-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0124

Stulp, Gert; Sear, Rebecca; (2019) How might life history theory contribute to life course theory? Advances in Life Course Research, 41. p. 100281. ISSN 1040-2608 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.04.011

Wells, Jonathan CK; Cole, Tim J; Cortina-Borja, Mario; Sear, Rebecca; Leon, David A; Marphatia, Akanksha A; Murray, Joseph; Wehrmeister, Fernando C; Oliveira, Paula D; Gonçalves, Helen; +2 more... Oliveira, Isabel O; Menezes, Ana Maria B; (2019) Low Maternal Capital Predicts Life History Trade-Offs in Daughters: Why Adverse Outcomes Cluster in Individuals. Frontiers in Public Health, 7. 206-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00206

Coall, David A; Hilbrand, Sonja; Sear, Rebecca; Hertwig, Ralph; (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

Hruschka, Daniel J; Sear, Rebecca; Hackman, Joseph; Drake, Alexandria; (2018) Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal parities. Population studies, 73 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1513164

Sear, Rebecca; (2018) Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility, and how does this vary worldwide? Population Horizons, 14 (1). pp. 18-34. ISSN 1746-1081 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pophzn-2017-0006

Brown, Laura J; Sear, Rebecca; (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, David W; Nuñez-de la Mora, Alejandra; Cooper, Gillian D; Prentice, Andrew M; Moore, Sophie E; Sear, Rebecca; (2017) Marital Status and Sleeping Arrangements Predict Salivary Testosterone Levels in Rural Gambian Men. Adaptive human behavior and physiology, 3 (3). pp. 221-240. ISSN 2198-7335 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0066-z

Schaffnit, Susan B; Sear, Rebecca; (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, 71 (3). pp. 345-361. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2017.1349924

Schaffnit, Susan B; Sear, Rebecca; (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

Schaffnit, Susan; Sear, Rebecca; (2017) Supportive families versus support from families: The decision to have a child in the Netherlands. Demographic research, 37 (1). pp. 414-454. ISSN 1435-9871 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2017.37.14

Sear, Rebecca; Schaffnit, Susan B; (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

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

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

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

Moya, Cristina; Snopkowski, Kristin; Sear, Rebecca; (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). 20150149-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0149

Pepper, Gillian; McAllister, Lisa; Sear, Rebecca; (2016) Why demography needs psychologists. The Psychologist, 29 (1). pp. 26-29. ISSN 0952-8229 https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/janua... Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; Lawson, David W; Kaplan, Hillard; Shenk, Mary K; (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). 20150144-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144

Sheppard, Paula; Sear, Rebecca; (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). 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 (17). pp. 467-498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.17

Snopkowski, Kristin; Sear, Rebecca; (2016) Does grandparental help mediate the relationship between kin presence and fertility? Demographic research, 34 (1). pp. 467-498. ISSN 1435-9871 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4054/demres.2016.34.17

Stulp, Gert; Sear, Rebecca; Barrett, Louise; (2016) The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 27 (4). pp. 422-444. ISSN 1045-6767 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-016-9269-4

Stulp, Gert; Sear, Rebecca; Schaffnit, Susan B; Mills, Melinda C; Barrett, Louise; (2016) The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II : The Association between Wealth and Fertility. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 27 (4). pp. 445-470. ISSN 1045-6767 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-016-9272-9

Virgo, SJ; (2016) Are risk of mortality and morbidity determinants of abortion behaviour and attitudes in England & Wales? PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04652294

Virgo, Sandra; Sear, Rebecca; (2016) Area-level mortality and morbidity predict ‘abortion proportion’ in England and Wales. Evolution and human behavior, 37 (5). pp. 366-375. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.03.001

Schaffnit, SB; (2015) Intergenerational support and women’s fertility in high-income countries: an evolutionary analysis. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.02212645

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 https://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

Sear, Rebecca; (2015) Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility. Population studies, 69 Sup (sup1). S39-S55. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.982905

Sear, Rebecca; (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

Sear, Rebecca; (2015) How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction. Population studies, 69 (1). pp. 126-127. ISSN 0032-4728 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.969574 Item availability may be restricted.

Sheppard, Paula; Garcia, Justin R; Sear, Rebecca; (2015) Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty? Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2015 (1). pp. 332-342. ISSN 2050-6201 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov028

Sheppard, Paula; Pearce, Mark S; Sear, Rebecca; (2015) How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development. American journal of human biology, 28 (3). pp. 356-363. ISSN 1042-0533 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22793

Snopkowski, Kristin; Sear, Rebecca; (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), 128. pp. 105-114. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.012

Felisberti, Fatima M; Sear, Rebecca; (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, Cristina; Sear, Rebecca; (2014) Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans. PeerJ, 2 (1). 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 Item availability may be restricted.

Sheppard, Paula; Garcia, Justin R; Sear, Rebecca; (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, Paula; Schaffnit, Susan B; Garcia, Justin R; Sear, Rebecca; (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, Paula; Snopkowski, Kristin; Sear, Rebecca; (2014) Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in Malaysia, a transitional fertility population. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 25 (2). pp. 213-234. ISSN 1045-6767 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9195-2

Snopkowski, Kristin; Moya, Cristina; Sear, Rebecca; (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). 20140580-. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0580

Mathews, Paul; Sear, Rebecca; (2013) Family and fertility: kin influence on the progression to a second birth in the British Household Panel Study. PloS one, 8 (3). e56941-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056941

Mathews, Paul; Sear, Rebecca; (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) 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 Item availability may be restricted.

Nettle, Daniel; Gibson, Mhairi A; Lawson, David W; Sear, Rebecca; (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

Snopkowski, Kristin; Sear, Rebecca; (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

Sheppard, Paula; Sear, Rebecca; (2012) Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men. Biology letters, 8 (2). pp. 237-240. ISSN 1744-9561 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0747

Brown, Gillian R; Dickins, Thomas E; Sear, Rebecca; Laland, Kevin N; (2011) Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences, 366 (1563). pp. 313-324. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0267 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, R; (2011) Parenting and families. In: Swami, V, (ed.) Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Introduction. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 215-250. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20984

Sear, Rebecca; Coall, David; (2011) How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition. Population and development review, 37 (Suppl ). pp. 81-112. ISSN 0098-7921 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00379.x

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 Item availability may be restricted.

Gibson, Mhairi A; Sear, Rebecca; (2010) Does Wealth Increase Parental Investment Biases in Child Education? Current anthropology, 51 (5). pp. 693-701. ISSN 0011-3204 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/655954

Gurven, Michael; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Hooper, Paul L; Kaplan, Hillard; Quinlan, Robert; Sear, Rebecca; Schniter, Eric; von Rueden, Christopher; Bowles, Samuel; Hertz, Tom; +1 more... Bell, Adrian; (2010) Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality. Current anthropology, 51 (1). pp. 49-64. ISSN 0011-3204 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/648587 Item availability may be restricted.

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 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21116

Sear, Rebecca; (2010) We are family. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7 (4). pp. 355-357. ISSN 1789-2082 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.7.2009.4.9 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; Dickins, Thomas E; (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

Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Bowles, Samuel; Hertz, Tom; Bell, Adrian; Beise, Jan; Clark, Greg; Fazzio, Ila; Gurven, Michael; Hill, Kim; Hooper, Paul L; +16 more... Irons, William; Kaplan, Hillard; Leonetti, Donna; Low, Bobbi; Marlowe, Frank; McElreath, Richard; Naidu, Suresh; Nolin, David; Piraino, Patrizio; Quinlan, Rob; Schniter, Eric; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary; Smith, Eric Alden; von Rueden, Christopher; Wiessner, Polly; (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. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20991

Sear, Rebecca; Marlowe, Frank W; (2009) How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate. Biology letters, 5 (5). pp. 606-609. ISSN 1744-9561 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0342

Mathews, Paul; Sear, Rebecca; (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 Item availability may be restricted.

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

Sear, Rebecca; (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 Item availability may be restricted.

Dickins, TE; Sear, R; Wells, AJ; (2007) Mind the gap(s)... in theory, method and data: Re-examining Kanazawa (2006). British journal of health psychology, 12 (Pt 2). pp. 167-178. ISSN 1359-107X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1348/135910707X174339

Sear, Rebecca; (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 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; Lawson, David W; Dickins, Thomas E; (2007) Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5 (1). pp. 3-28. ISSN 1789-2082 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.2007.1019

Shanley, Daryl P; Sear, Rebecca; Mace, Ruth; Kirkwood, Thomas BL; (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 Item availability may be restricted.

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 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20986

Sear, Rebecca; (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 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2006.9989125 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; (2006) Height and reproductive success : How a Gambian population compares with the west. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 17 (4). pp. 405-418. ISSN 1045-6767 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1 Item availability may be restricted.

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 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21153 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, R; (2005) 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 Item availability may be restricted.

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. 465-470. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; (2004) Height and reproductive success. Research in Economic Anthropology, 17 (4). pp. 405-418. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1

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. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20974 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, Rebecca; Mace, Ruth; McGregor, Ian A; (2003) The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia. Evolution and human behavior, 24 (1). pp. 25-42. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s1090-5138(02)00105-8

Sear, Rebecca; Steele, Fiona; McGregor, Ian A; Mace, Ruth; (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

Sear, R; Shanley, D; Mcgregor, IA; Mace, R; (2001) The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia. Journal of evolutionary biology, 14 (3). pp. 433-443. ISSN 1010-061X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00287.x Item availability may be restricted.

Mace, R; Sear, R; (1996) Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS, 54 (2). pp. 137-141. ISSN 0020-7292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7292(96)02691-4