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). p. 20180076. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0076

Brown, Laura; 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. ISSN 1740-8695 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12851 Item availability may be restricted.

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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). p. 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. ISSN 1040-2608 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.04.011 Item availability may be restricted.

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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, 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) 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, 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

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

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 Full text not available from this repository.

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, 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

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... Item availability may be restricted.

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

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

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

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) 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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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

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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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

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) 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, 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

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

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

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 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, 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

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, 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; +1 more... 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 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, R; (2010) We are family: Review of 'Mothers and Others' by Sarah Hrdy. 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, 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, 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

Borgerhoff Mulder, M; Bowles, S; Hertz, T; Bell, A; Beise, J; Clark, G; Fazzio, I; Gurven, M; Hill, K; Hooper, PL; +16 more... 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. https://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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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 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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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 Item availability may be restricted.

Sear, R; Lawson, DW; Dickins, TE; (2007) Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5 (1). pp. 3-28. ISSN 1789-2082 https://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 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, 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 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20964 Item availability may be restricted.

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 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/20989 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) 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 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. 465-70. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623 Item availability may be restricted.

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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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

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 Item availability may be restricted.

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 Item availability may be restricted.