Mclean, E; (2024) Demonstrating the value of Health and Demographic Surveillance Site data for complex secondary analyses, illustrated with analyses of young people’s living arrangements and transitions to adulthood. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04672591

Page, Abigail E; Ringen, Erik J; Koster, Jeremy; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Kramer, Karen; Shenk, Mary K; Stieglitz, Jonathan; Starkweather, Kathrine; Ziker, John P; Boyette, Adam H; +33 more... Colleran, Heidi; Moya, Cristina; Du, Juan; Mattison, Siobhán M; Greaves, Russell; Sum, Chun-Yi; Liu, Ruizhe; Lew-Levy, Sheina; Kiabiya Ntamboudila, Francy; Prall, Sean; Towner, Mary C; Blumenfield, Tami; Migliano, Andrea B; Major-Smith, Daniel; Dyble, Mark; Salali, Gul Deniz; Chaudhary, Nikhil; Derkx, Inez E; Ross, Cody T; Scelza, Brooke A; Gurven, Michael D; Winterhalder, Bruce P; Cortez, Carmen; Pacheco-Cobos, Luis; Schacht, Ryan; Macfarlan, Shane J; Leonetti, Donna; French, Jennifer C; Alam, Nurul; Zohora, Fatema Tuz; Kaplan, Hillard S; Hooper, Paul L; Sear, Rebecca; (2024) Women's subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (9). e2318181121-. ISSN 0027-8424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318181121

Sear, Rebecca; (2024) Whales make waves in the quest to discover why menopause evolved. Nature, 627 (8004). pp. 496-497. ISSN 0028-0836 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00658-9

Spake, Laure; Hassan, Anushé; Schaffnit, Susan B; Alam, Nurul; Amoah, Abena S; Badjie, Jainaba; Cerami, Carla; Crampin, Amelia; Dube, Albert; Kaye, Miranda P; +13 more... Kotch, Renee; Liew, Frankie; McLean, Estelle; Munthali-Mkandawire, Shekinah; Mwalwanda, Lusako; Petersen, Anne-Cathrine; Prentice, Andrew M; Zohora, Fatema Tuz; Watts, Joseph; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary K; Sosis, Richard; Shaver, John H; (2024) A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291 (2021). 20231422-. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1422

Thurstans, S; (2024) Sex Differences in Risk and Outcomes from Severe Malnutrition: Implications For Management. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04672595

Raybould, Alyce; Mynarska, Monika; Sear, Rebecca; (2023) "The future is unstable": Exploring changing fertility intentions in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health, 55 (4). pp. 229-238. ISSN 1538-6341 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12248

Ross, Cody T; Hooper, Paul L; Smith, Jennifer E; Jaeggi, Adrian V; Smith, Eric Alden; Gavrilets, Sergey; Zohora, Fatema Tuz; Ziker, John; Xygalatas, Dimitris; Wroblewski, Emily E; +94 more... Wood, Brian; Winterhalder, Bruce; Willführ, Kai P; Willard, Aiyana K; Walker, Kara; von Rueden, Christopher; Voland, Eckart; Valeggia, Claudia; Vaitla, Bapu; Urlacher, Samuel; Towner, Mary; Sum, Chun-Yi; Sugiyama, Lawrence S; Strier, Karen B; Starkweather, Kathrine; Major-Smith, Daniel; Shenk, Mary; Sear, Rebecca; Seabright, Edmond; Schacht, Ryan; Scelza, Brooke; Scaggs, Shane; Salerno, Jonathan; Revilla-Minaya, Caissa; Redhead, Daniel; Pusey, Anne; Purzycki, Benjamin Grant; Power, Eleanor A; Pisor, Anne; Pettay, Jenni; Perry, Susan; Page, Abigail E; Pacheco-Cobos, Luis; Oths, Kathryn; Oh, Seung-Yun; Nolin, David; Nettle, Daniel; Moya, Cristina; Migliano, Andrea Bamberg; Mertens, Karl J; McNamara, Rita A; McElreath, Richard; Mattison, Siobhan; Massengill, Eric; Marlowe, Frank; Madimenos, Felicia; Macfarlan, Shane; Lummaa, Virpi; Lizarralde, Roberto; Liu, Ruizhe; Liebert, Melissa A; Lew-Levy, Sheina; Leslie, Paul; Lanning, Joseph; Kramer, Karen; Koster, Jeremy; Kaplan, Hillard S; Jamsranjav, Bayarsaikhan; Hurtado, A Magdalena; Hill, Kim; Hewlett, Barry; Helle, Samuli; Headland, Thomas; Headland, Janet; Gurven, Michael; Grimalda, Gianluca; Greaves, Russell; Golden, Christopher D; Godoy, Irene; Gibson, Mhairi; Mouden, Claire El; Dyble, Mark; Draper, Patricia; Downey, Sean; DeMarco, Angelina L; Davis, Helen Elizabeth; Crabtree, Stefani; Cortez, Carmen; Colleran, Heidi; Cohen, Emma; Clark, Gregory; Clark, Julia; Caudell, Mark A; Carminito, Chelsea E; Bunce, John; Boyette, Adam; Bowles, Samuel; Blumenfield, Tami; Beheim, Bret; Beckerman, Stephen; Atkinson, Quentin; Apicella, Coren; Alam, Nurul; Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff; (2023) Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (22). e2220124120-. ISSN 0027-8424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220124120

Sear, Rebecca; Townsend, Cathryn; (2023) 'Dysgenic fertility' is an ideological, not a scientific, concept. A Comment on: 'Stability and change in male fertility patterns by cognitive ability across 32 birth cohorts' (2023), by Bratsberg & Rogeberg. Biology letters, 19 (11). 20230390-. ISSN 1744-9561 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0390

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

Lynch, R; Schaffnit, S; Sear, R; Sosis, R; Shaver, J; Alam, N; Blumenfield, T; Mattison, SM; Shenk, M; (2022) Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women's social networks in Bangladesh. Scientific reports, 12 (1). p. 18780. ISSN 2045-2322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22972-w

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

Schaffnit, SB; Page, AE; Lynch, R; Spake, L; Sear, R; Sosis, R; Shaver, J; Alam, N; Towner, MC; Shenk, MK; (2022) The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5. e5-. ISSN 2513-843X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.54

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, 28 (2). pp. 360-381. ISSN 1081-602X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2022.2123842

Spake, Laure; Hassan, Anushé; Sear, Rebecca; Shenk, Mary K; Sosis, Richard; Shaver, John H; (2022) Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility. Religion, Brain & Behavior, 12 (4). pp. 343-346. ISSN 2153-599X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599x.2022.2127212

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

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. 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). 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

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). 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. e13-. 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; (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. 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) 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 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; 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