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A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic Correlations?

article

A not-so-grim tale: how childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical U.S. Population

scientific article

A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups

scientific article published in August 2014

An age-dependent ovulatory strategy explains the evolution of dizygotic twinning in humans

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Are mothers less likely to breastfeed in harsh environments? Physical environmental quality and breastfeeding in the Born in Bradford study

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Area-level mortality and morbidity predict ‘abortion proportion’ in England and Wales

article

Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting

article published in 2016

Birth interval and the sex of children in a traditional African population: an evolutionary analysis

scientific article published on October 1997

Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty?

scientific article

Children of the (gender) revolution: A theoretical and empirical synthesis of how gendered division of labour influences fertility

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households

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Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate

scientific article

Does Wealth Increase Parental Investment Biases in Child Education?

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Does the kin orientation of a British woman s social network influence her entry into motherhood?

article

Domestication Alone Does Not Lead to Inequality

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Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity

scientific article

Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility

scientific article

Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Family and fertility: kin influence on the progression to a second birth in the British Household Panel Study

scientific article

Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in Malaysia, a transitional fertility population

scientific article

Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men ⬇️

scientific article published on September 7, 2011

Fostering relations: first sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers

Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality

scientific article

Grandparental help in Indonesia is directed preferentially towards needier descendants: a potential confounder when exploring grandparental influences on child health

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

HEIGHT, MARRIAGE AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN GAMBIAN WOMEN

article published in Research in economic anthropology

Height and reproductive success : How a Gambian population compares with the west

scientific article published in December 2006

How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate

scientific article

Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects

scientific article published in 2013

Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans

scientific article

Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies

scientific article published on October 2009

Introduction to special issue on "Trade-Offs in Female Life Histories: Integrating Evolutionary Frameworks".

scientific article published in July 2009

It's not just about the future: The present payoffs to behaviour vary in degree and kind between the rich and the poor

scientific article published in January 2017

Kin and Child Survival in Rural Malawi : Are Matrilineal Kin Always Beneficial in a Matrilineal Society?

scientific article published in September 2008

Life-history tradeoffs in a historical population (1896–1939) undergoing rapid fertility decline: Costs of reproduction?

scientific article published in 2022

Local environmental quality positively predicts breastfeeding in the UK's Millennium Cohort Study

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

Low Maternal Capital Predicts Life History Trade-Offs in Daughters: Why Adverse Outcomes Cluster in Individuals

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Modernizing Evolutionary Anthropology : Introduction to the Special Issue

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

Postdoctoral researchers in the UK: a snapshot at factors affecting their research output

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Reproductive Decisions by Gabbra Pastoralists in the Face of Demographic Risks

Sharing the Load: How Do Coresident Children Influence the Allocation of Work and Schooling in Northwestern Tanzania?

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Size‐dependent reproductive success in Gambian men: Does height or weight matter more?

article by Rebecca Sear published September 2006 in Social Biology

Support for new mothers and fertility in the United Kingdom: Not all support is equal in the decision to have a second child

scientific article

Supportive families versus support from families: The decision to have a child in the Netherlands

Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences

Testing evolutionary theories of menopause

scientific article published in 2007

The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters.

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II : The Association between Wealth and Fertility.

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

The Uptake of Modern Contraception in a Gambian Community

The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia.

scientific article published in February 2002

The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia

article by Rebecca Sear et al published January 2003 in Evolution and Human Behavior

The generation game is the cooperation game: The role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction

The impact of reproduction on gambian women: does controlling for phenotypic quality reveal costs of reproduction?

scientific article published in April 2007

Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography?

scientific article

What do men want? Re-examining whether men benefit from higher fertility than is optimal for women.

scientific article published on April 2016

Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal parities

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