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List of works by Brooke Scelza

Adoption of outgroup norms provides evidence for social transmission in perinatal care practices among rural Namibian women

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Bush tucker, shop tucker: production, consumption, and diet at an Aboriginal outstation

scientific article published in January 2014

Child fosterage and sex-biased nutritional outcomes among Namibian pastoralists.

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Choosy but not chaste: multiple mating in human females

scientific article published in September 2013

Concentrations of trace elements in human milk: Comparisons among women in Argentina, Namibia, Poland, and the United States

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Correction to: 'Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model'

scientific article published on 31 October 2018

Crucial Contributions : A Biocultural Study of Grandmothering During the Perinatal Period

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Detecting affiliation in colaughter across 24 societies

scientific article

Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Female choice and extra-pair paternity in a traditional human population

scientific article published on July 6, 2011

Female mobility and postmarital kin access in a patrilocal society

scientific article

Food scarcity, not economic constraint limits consumption in a rural Aboriginal community

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

Fosterage as a system of dispersed cooperative breeding: evidence from the Himba.

scientific article published in December 2014

Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Group Structure and Female Cooperative Networks in Australia's Western Desert

scientific article

High rate of extrapair paternity in a human population demonstrates diversity in human reproductive strategies

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Jealousy in a small-scale, natural fertility population: the roles of paternity, investment and love in jealous response

article by Brooke A. Scelza published March 2014 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation

scientific article published on 28 November 2022

Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies.

scientific article

Paternal Investment and the Positive Effects of Fathers among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China

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Paternal investment and status-related child outcomes: timing of father's death affects offspring success

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Perceptions of polygyny: the effects of offspring and other kin on co-wife satisfaction

scientific article

Small-scale societies exhibit fundamental variation in the role of intentions in moral judgment

scientific article published on 28 March 2016

The dietary impacts of drought in a traditional pastoralist economy

scientific article published in 2022

The disequilibrium of double descent: changing inheritance norms among Himba pastoralists

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

The effect of mating market dynamics on partner preference and relationship quality among Himba pastoralists

scientific article published on 04 May 2022

The grandmaternal niche: Critical caretaking among Martu Aborigines.

scientific article

The hierarchy of virtue: mutualism, altruism and signaling in Martu women's cooperative hunting

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

The influence of age- and sex-specific labor demands on sleep in Namibian agropastoralists

scientific article published on 15 October 2018

The place of proximity: social support in mother-adult daughter relationships

scientific article published in July 2011

Variation among populations in the immune protein composition of mother's milk reflects subsistence pattern

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Why men invest in non-biological offspring: paternal care and paternity confidence among Himba pastoralists

scientific article published on 11 March 2020