2019
Page, A. E., Thomas, M., Viguier, S., Dyble, M., Smith, D., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G., Thompson, J., Mace, R., and Migliano, A. B. (2019) Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers? Nature Human Behaviour. doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0679-2
Page, A. E., Myers, S., Dyble, M. and Migliano, A. B. (2019) Why so many Agta boys? Explaining extreme sex ratios in Philippine forgers. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1: e5.
Dyble, M., Thorley, J., Page, A. E., Smith, D., and Migliano, A. B. (2019) Engagement in agricultural work is associated with reduced leisure time among Agta hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour.
Brown, L.J. & Sear, R. (2019) Are mothers more likely to breastfeed in harsh environments? Physical environmental quality and breastfeeding in the Born in Bradford Study. Maternal and Child Nutrition
Hedges, S., Lawson, D.W., Todd, J., Urassa, M., Sear, R. (2019) Sharing the load: how do co-resident children influence the allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania? Demography
Wells, J.C.K., Cole, T., Cortina-Borja, M., Sear, R., Leon, D.A., Marphatia, A.A., Murray, J., Wehrmeister, F.C., Oliveira, P.D., Gonçalves, H., Oliveira, I.O., Menezes, A.M.B. (2019) Low maternal capital predicts life history trade-offs in daughters: why adverse outcomes cluster in individuals. Frontiers in Public Health 7:206
Borgerhoff Mulder, M.; Towner, M.; Baldini, R.; Beheim, B.; Bowles, S.; Colleran, H.; Gurven, M.; Kramer, K.; Mattison, S.; Nolin, D.; Scelza, B.; Sear, R.; Shenk, M.; Voland, E.; Ziker, J. (2019) Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 374: 20180076
Hedges, S., Sear, R., Todd, J., Urassa, M., Lawson, D.W. (2019) Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. Demographic Research 41(10): 263-292
Stulp, G. & Sear, R. (in press) How might life history contribute to life course theory? Advances in Life Course Research
Sear, R., Sheppard, P., & Coall, D. (2019) Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 374: 20180124
Hruschka, D., Sear, R. & Hackman, J. (2019) Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal family sizes. Population Studies 73(1): 1-17
2018
Page, A. E., Minter, T., Viguier, S., and Migliano, A. B. (2018) Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: how the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta’s health outcomes. Social Science and Medicine, 197: 39-48.
Smith D., Major, K., Dyble, M., Page, A. E., Migliano, A.B., Thompson, J., Chaudhary, N., Salali, G.D., Vinicius, L. and Mace, R. (2018) A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers. Evolution and Human Behaviour
Brown, L. J., Tan, K. S., Guerra, L. E., Naidoo, C. J., & Nardone, A. (2018). Using behavioural insights to increase HIV self-sampling kit returns: a randomized controlled text message trial to improve England’s HIV self-sampling service HIV Medicine 19 585–596.
Hedges, S., Sear, R., Todd, J., Urassa, M., Lawson, D.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): 644-654
Coall, D., Hilbrand, S., Sear, R. & Hertwig, R. (2018) Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment: a journey towards causality. Contemporary Social Science 13(2): 159-174
2017
Sear, R. (2017) Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility and how does this vary worldwide? Population Horizons 14(1): 18-34
Lawson, D.W., Schaffnit, S.B., Hassan A., Ngadaya E., Ngowi B., Mfinanga S.G.M., James, S., & Borgerhoff Mulder M. (2017) Father Absence but Not Fosterage Predicts Food Insecurity, Relative Poverty, and Poor Child Health in Northern Tanzania. American Journal of Human Biology, 29, e22938
Brown, L. J., & Sear, R. (2017). Local environmental quality positively predicts breastfeeding in the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study. Evol Med Public Health, 2017(1), 120-135.
Sear, R., & Schaffnit, S. (2017). It’s not just about the future: The present payoffs to behavior vary in degree and kind between the rich and the poor. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40. doi:10.1017/S0140525X1700111X [Commentary on Pepper & Nettle (2017) The behavioral constellation of deprivation: Causes and consequences.]
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear R. (2017). Supportive families versus support from families: the decision to have a child in the Netherlands. Demographic Research, 37(14): 414-454. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.14
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear, R. (2017). Support for new mothers and the decision to have a second child in the United Kingdom: not all support is equal. Population Studies: 1-17. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2017.1349924
Wells, J.C.K., Nesse, R., Sear, R., Johnstone, R., Stearns, S. (2017) Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept. Lancet 390(10093): 500-509
Lawson, D.W., Núñez-de la Mora, A, Cooper, G.D., Prentice, A, Moore, S.E. & Sear, R. (2017) Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone in rural Gambian men. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
2016
Hedges, Sophie, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Susan James, and David W. Lawson (2016) Sending Children to School: Rural Livelihoods and Parental Investment in Education in Northern Tanzania. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37 (2016), 142–51
Mattison, S., & Sear, R. (2016) Modernising evolutionary anthropology. Human Nature 27(4): 335-350.
Stulp, G., Sear, R., & Barrett, L. (2016). The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I. Human Nature, 1–23.
Stulp, G., Sear, R., Schaffnit, S. B., Mills, M. C., & Barrett, L. (2016). The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part II. Human Nature.
Sheppard, P., Pearce, M. & Sear, R. (2016) How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development. American Journal of Human Biology 28(3): 356-363
Sheppard, P. & Sear, R. (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: 160069
Sear, R., Lawson, D. W., Kaplan, H., & Shenk, M. K. (2016). Understanding variation in human fertility : what can we learn from evolutionary demography ?, (March). http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144
Snopkowski, K., & Sear, R. (2016). Does grandparental help mediate the relationship between kin presence and fertility? Demographic Research, 34(March), 467–498.
Moya, C., Snopkowski, K., & Sear, R. (2016). What men want: can men really benefit from higher fertility than is optimal for women? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, (APRIL).
Virgo, S., & Sear, R. (2016). Area-level mortality and morbidity predict “abortion proportion” in England and Wales. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(5), 366–375.
Lawson, D. W., & Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2016). The offspring quantity-quality trade-off and human fertility. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 371.
Stulp, G., & Barrett, L. (2016). Wealth, fertility, and adaptive behaviour in industrial populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 371.
McAllister, L. S., Pepper, G. V., Virgo, S., & Coall, D. A. (2016). The evolved psychological mechanisms of fertility motivation: hunting for causation in a sea of correlation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1692), 20150151.
Coall, D. A., Tickner, M., McAllister, L. S., & Sheppard, P. (2016). Developmental influences on fertility decisions by women: an evolutionary perspective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 371(1692), 20150146.
Sear, R. (2016) Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting. Current Opinion in Psychology. 7: 98-103
2015
Sheppard, P., Garcia, J.R. & Sear, R. (2015) Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty? Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 1: 332-342
Sear, R. (2015) Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility. Population Studies 69: S39-S55
Gibson MA & Lawson DW. 2015. Applying Evolutionary Anthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. 24(1): 3-14.
Stulp, G., Barrett, L., Tropf, F.C. & Mills, M. (2015). Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth? Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20150211
Stulp, G., Pollet, T.V. & Barrett, L. (2015). The not-always-uniquely-predictive power of an evolutionary approach to understanding our not-so-computational nature. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 1-4
Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2015) Grandparental help in Indonesia is directed preferentially towards needier descendants: a potential confounder when exploring grandparental influences on child health? Social Science & Medicine 128: 105-114
Pollet, T.V., Stulp, G., Henzi, P. & Barrett, L. (2015). Taking the aggravation out of data aggregation: a conceptual guide to dealing with statistical issues related to the pooling of individual-level observational data. American Journal of Primatology 77(7): 727-740
Sear, R. (2015) Evolutionary Demography: A Darwinian Renaissance in Demography. International Encylcopedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2nd ed. Elsevier
Stulp, G, Buunk, AP, Verhulst, S & Pollet, TV. (2015). Human height is positively related to interpersonal dominance in dyadic interactions. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0117860
Stulp, G. & Barrett, L. (2015). Evolutionary perspectives on human height variation. Biological Reviews.
2014
Lawson DW, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Ghiselli ME, Ngadaya E, Ngowi B, Mfinanga SGM, Hartwig K. & James S. Ethnicity and child health in northern Tanzania: Maasai pastoralists are disadvantaged compared to neighbouring ethnic groups. PLoS ONE 9(10): e110447
Pound N, Lawson DW, Penton-Voak I, Toma AM & Richmond R. Facial fluctuating asymmetry is not associated with childhood ill-health in a large British cohort study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Moya, C. & Sear, R. (2014) An intergenerational conflict model of age at first birth in humans. PeerJ 2:e512
Barrett, L., Pollet, T.V. & Stulp, G. (2014). From computers to cultivation: reconceptualizing evolutionary psychology. Frontiers in Psychology 5: 1-14.
Snopkowski, K, Moya, C. & Sear, R. (2014). A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society: B
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear, R. (2014). Wealth modifies relationships between kin and women’s fertility in high-income countries. Behavioral Ecology 25: 834-842
Moya, C. & Scelza, B. (in press). The effect of recent ethnogenesis and migration histories on perceptions of ethnic group stability. Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Sheppard, P.J., Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2014) Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in Malaysia, a transitional fertility population. Human Nature 25: 213-234
Stulp, G. & Barrett, L. (2014). The course (of) (or) history of life? A response to “A life-course approach to fertility”. Demographic Research
Stulp, G., Mills, M., Pollet, T.V. & Barrett, L. (2014). Non-linear associations between stature and mate choice characteristics for American men and their spouses. American Journal of Human Biology 26:530–537.
Felisberti, F.M., & Sear, R. (2014) Postdoctoral researchers in the UK: a snapshot of factors affecting their research output. PLoS ONE 9(4): e93890
Lawson, D.W. & Uggla, C. (2014). Family structure and health in the developing world: what can evolutionary anthropology contribute to population health science? In Gibson M.A. & Lawson, D.W. (Eds) Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues
Gibson, M.A. & Lawson, D.W. (2014) Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Perspectives on Contemporary World Issues. Springer
Sheppard, P.J., Garcia, J.R. & Sear, R. (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.
Sheppard, P.J., Schaffnit, S.B. Garcia, J.R. & Sear, R. (2014) Fostering relations: First sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers. Evolution and Human Behavior 35(3): 161-168.
2013
Alvergne, A., Lawson, D.W., Clarke, P.M.R., Gurmu, E. & Mace, R. Fertility, parental investment, and the early adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia. American Journal of Human Biology 25:107-15.
Lawson D.W, Makoli A., Goodman A. Sibling configuration predicts individual and descendant socioeconomic success in a modern post-industrial society. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73698.
Mathews, P. & Sear, R. (2013) Family and fertility: kin influence on the progression to a second birth in the British Household Panel Study. PLoS ONE 8(3): e56941
Mathews, P. & Sear, R. (2013) Does the kin orientation of a British female’s social network influence her entry into motherhood? Demographic Research 28(11): 313-340
Moya, C. (2013) Evolved priors for ethnolinguistic categorization: A case study from the Quechua-Aymara boundary in the Peruvian Altiplano Evolution and Human Behavior 34(4): 265-272.
Nettle, D., Gibson, M.A., Lawson, D. & Sear, R. (2013) Human behavioural ecology: current research and future prospects. Behavioural Ecology
Snopkowski, K. and R. Sear (2013) Kin influences on fertility in Thailand: Effects and Mechanisms. Evolution and Human Behavior 34(2): 130-138.
2012
Goodman, A., Koupil, I. & Lawson D.W. Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4342-4351
Lawson, D.W., Alvergne, A. & Gibson, M.A. The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279: 4755-4764.
Sheppard, P.J. & Sear, R. (2012) Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men. Biology Letters 8(2): 237-240.
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