Items where Author or Contributor is "Sear, R"
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Number of items: 113.
2023
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;
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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
2022
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<sup>th</sup> 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
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Thurstans, Susan;
Opondo, Charles;
Seal, Andrew;
Wells, Jonathan C;
Khara, Tanya;
Dolan, Carmel;
Briend, André;
Myatt, Mark;
Garenne, Michel;
Mertens, Andrew;
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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
2021
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
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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;
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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
2020
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
2019
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 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.
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
2018
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
2017
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
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
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
2015
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
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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
2014
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;
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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, 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).
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ISSN 1932-6203
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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
2013
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
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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
2012
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
2011
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
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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
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, 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;
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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
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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
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
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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
2009
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique;
Bowles, Samuel;
Hertz, Tom;
Bell, Adrian;
Beise, Jan;
Clark, Greg;
Fazzio, Ila;
Gurven, Michael;
Hill, Kim;
Hooper, Paul L;
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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).
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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.
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2008
Mathews, Paul;
Sear, Rebecca;
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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;
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.
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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
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2007
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
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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
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2006
Mace, R;
Allal, N;
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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.
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Sear, Rebecca;
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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
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Sear, Rebecca;
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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
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2005
Mace, R;
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(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.
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https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/21153
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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
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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. 465-470.
ISSN 0962-8452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623
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Sear, Rebecca;
(2004)
Height and reproductive success.
Research in Economic Anthropology, 17 (4).
pp. 405-418.
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2003
Sear, R;
MacE, R;
McGregor, IA;
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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
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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.
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2002
Sear, Rebecca;
Steele, Fiona;
McGregor, Ian A;
Mace, Ruth;
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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
2001
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
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Mace, R;
Sear, R;
(1996)
Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS, 54 (2).
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ISSN 0020-7292
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