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2024
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
2023
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
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
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
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;
+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
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;
(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.
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Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate.
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The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters.
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Are risk of mortality and morbidity determinants of abortion behaviour and attitudes in England & Wales?
PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Virgo, Sandra;
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Sear, R;
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Evolutionary Demography: A Darwinian Renaissance in Demography.
In: Wright, JamesD, (ed.)
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Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 406-412.
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Sear, Rebecca;
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Population studies, 69 Sup (sup1).
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Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting.
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How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction.
Population studies, 69 (1).
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Sheppard, Paula;
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Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty?
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How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development.
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Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans.
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A not-so-grim tale: how childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical U.S. Population.
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Fostering relations: first sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers.
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A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups.
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Family and fertility: kin influence on the progression to a second birth in the British Household Panel Study.
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Does the kin orientation of a British woman’s social network influence her entry into motherhood?
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Nettle, D;
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Response: how much you need to engage with mechanism depends on what you are trying to do.
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Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects.
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Snopkowski, Kristin;
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Kin influences on fertility in Thailand: Effects and mechanisms.
Evolution and human behavior, 34 (2).
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Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men.
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How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition.
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Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality.
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Does Wealth Increase Parental Investment Biases in Child Education?
Current anthropology, 51 (5).
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Gurven, Michael;
Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique;
Hooper, Paul L;
Kaplan, Hillard;
Quinlan, Robert;
Sear, Rebecca;
Schniter, Eric;
von Rueden, Christopher;
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Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality.
Current anthropology, 51 (1).
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Sear, R;
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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.
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Sear, Rebecca;
(2010)
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Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7 (4).
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Sear, Rebecca;
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The generation game is the cooperation game: The role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction.
Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 33 (1).
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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;
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Leonetti, Donna;
Low, Bobbi;
Marlowe, Frank;
McElreath, Richard;
Naidu, Suresh;
Nolin, David;
Piraino, Patrizio;
Quinlan, Rob;
Schniter, Eric;
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Shenk, Mary;
Smith, Eric Alden;
von Rueden, Christopher;
Wiessner, Polly;
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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;
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How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate.
Biology letters, 5 (5).
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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).
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SEAR, R;
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Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival.
Evolution and human behavior, 29 (1).
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Sear, Rebecca;
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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;
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Wells, AJ;
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Mind the gap(s)... in theory, method and data: Re-examining Kanazawa (2006).
British journal of health psychology, 12 (Pt 2).
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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).
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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).
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.2007.1019
Shanley, Daryl P;
Sear, Rebecca;
Mace, Ruth;
Kirkwood, Thomas BL;
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Testing evolutionary theories of menopause.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274 (1628).
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1028
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2006
Mace, R;
Allal, N;
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Prentice, A;
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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).
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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).
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1
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2005
Mace, R;
Sear, R;
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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;
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Biology at work: Rethinking sexual equality.
Sexualities, Evolution and Gender, 7 (2).
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2004
Allal, N;
Sear, R;
Prentice, AM;
Mace, R;
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An evolutionary model of stature, age at first birth and reproductive success in Gambian women.
Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 271 (1538).
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Sear, Rebecca;
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Height and reproductive success.
Research in Economic Anthropology, 17 (4).
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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;
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McGregor, Ian A;
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The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia.
Evolution and human behavior, 24 (1).
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The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia.
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The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia.
Journal of evolutionary biology, 14 (3).
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Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS, 54 (2).
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