LSE creators

Number of items: 35.
2025
  • Gaddy, Hampton, Sear, Rebecca, Fortunato, Laura (2025). High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(40). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2508091122 picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Gaddy, Hampton, Fortunato, Laura, Sear, Rebecca (2023). Replication materials for paper: High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market. [Dataset]. Open Science Framework (OSF).
  • Ross, Cody T., Hooper, Paul L., Smith, Jennifer E., Jaeggi, Adrian V., Smith, Eric Alden, Gavrilets, Sergey, tuz Zohora, Fatema, Ziker, John, Xygalatas, Dimitris & Wroblewski, Emily E. et al (2023). Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(22). https://doi.org/10.1073/PNAS.2220124120 picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Sigle, Wendy, Reid, Alice, Sear, Rebecca (2021). 75 years of Population Studies: a diamond anniversary special issue. Population Studies, 75(S1), 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.2006440 picture_as_pdf
  • 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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100431
    • 2020
  • 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 of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 375(1805). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0428 picture_as_pdf
    • 2012
  • Mathews, Paul, Sear, Rebecca, Coast, Ernestina, Iacovou, Maria (2012-05-03 - 2012-05-05) Do preceding questions influence the reporting of childbearing intentions in social surveys? [Paper]. Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, United States, USA.
    • 2011
  • Sheppard, Paula, Sear, Rebecca (2011). Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men. Biology Letters, Online, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0747
  • Brown, Gillian R., Dickins, Thomas E., Sear, Rebecca, Laland, Kevin N. (2011). Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(156), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0267
    • 2010
  • Gibson, Mhairi A., Sear, Rebecca (2010). Does wealth increase parental investment biases in child education? Current Anthropology, 51(5), 693-701. https://doi.org/10.1086/655954
  • Sear, Rebecca, Dickins, Thomas E. (2010). The generation game is the cooperation game: the role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(1), 34-35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991725
    • 2009
  • Sear, Rebecca, Marlowe, Frank W. (2009). How universal are human mate choices?: size doesn’t matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate. Biology Letters, 5(5), 606-609. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0342
  • Sear, Rebecca, Gibson, Mhairi (2009). Introduction to special issue on “Trade-Offs in Female Life Histories: Integrating Evolutionary Frameworks”. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(4), 417-420. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20952
    • 2008
  • Sear, Rebecca (2008). Kin and child survival in Malawi: are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society? Human Nature, 19(3), 277-293. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9042-4
  • Mathews, Paul, Sear, Rebecca (2008). Life after death: an investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment. Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3), 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.3.1
  • Puradiredja, Dewi Ismajani, Coast, Ernestina, Sear, Rebecca (2008-07-09 - 2008-07-12) Why do female sex workers in Indonesia not use condoms?: a mixed methods study of the heterogeneous contexts of condom use [Paper]. European Population Conference, Barcelona, Spain, ESP.
  • Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth (2008). Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.10.001
    • 2007
  • Shanley, Daryl P., Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth, Kirkwood, Thomas B.L. (2007). Testing evolutionary theories of menopause. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1628), 2943-2949. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1028
  • Dickens, T.E, Sear, Rebecca, Wells, Andrew J. (2007). Mind the gap(s)... in theory, method and data: a response to Kanazawa (2006). British Journal of Health Psychology, 12(2), 167-178. https://doi.org/10.1348/135910707X174339
  • Sear, Rebecca (2007). The impact of reproduction on Gamian women: does controlling for phenotypic quality reveal costs of reproduction. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 132(4), 632-641. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20558
  • Sear, Rebecca, Lawson, David W., Dickins, Thomas E. (2007). Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5(1-4), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1556/JEP.2007.1019
    • 2006
  • Sear, Rebecca (2006). Height and reproductive success: how a Gambian population compares to the West. Human Nature, 17(4), 405-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1
  • Mace, Ruth, Allal, Nadine, Sear, Rebecca (2006). The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community: the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years. In Wells, Jonathan C. K., Strickland, Simon, Laland, Kevin (Eds.), Social Information Transmission and Human Biology (pp. 191-206). CRC Press.
    • 2005
  • Mace, Ruth, Sear, Rebecca (2005). Are humans cooperative breeders? In Voland, Eckart, Chasiotis, Athanasios, Schiefenhoevel, Wulf (Eds.), Grandmotherhood - the Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life (pp. 143-159). Rutgers University Press.
  • Sear, Rebecca (2005). Book review: biology at work: rethinking sexual inequality by Kingsley R Browne. Sexualities, Evolution and Gender, 7(2), 189-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616660500173511
    • 2004
  • Sear, Rebecca, Allal, Nadine, Mace, Ruth (2004). Height, marriage and reproductive success in Gambian women. In Alvard, Michael (Ed.), Research in Economic Anthropology (pp. 203-224). Elsevier (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(04)23008-6
  • Allal, N., Sear, Rebecca, Prentice, A. M., Mace, R. (2004). An evolutionary model of stature, age at first birth and reproductive success in Gambian women. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 271(1538), 465-470. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623
    • 2003
  • Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth, McGregor, Ian A. (2003). The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(1), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00105-8
  • Holden, Clare Janaki, Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth (2003). Matriliny as daughter-biased investment. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24(2), 99-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00122-8
    • 2002
  • Sear, Rebecca, Steele, Fiona, McGregor, Ian A., Mace, Ruth (2002). The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia. Demography, 39(1), 43-63.
  • Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth, McGregor, Ian A. (2002). A life history approach to fertility rates in rural Gambia: evidence for trade-offs or phenotypic correlations? In Rodgers, Joseph Lee, Kohler, Hans-Peter (Eds.), The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility (pp. 135-160). Kluwer Academic Publishers.
    • 2001
  • Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth, Shanley, Daryl, McGregor, Ian A. (2001). The fitness of twin mothers : evidence from rural Gambia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 14(3), 433-443. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00287.x
    • 2000
  • Sear, Rebecca, Mace, Ruth, McGregor, Ian A. (2000). Maternal grandmothers improve the nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 267(1453), 1641-1647. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1190
    • 1997
  • Mace, Ruth, Sear, Rebecca (1997). Birth interval and the sex of children in a traditional African population : an evolutionary analysis. Journal of Biosocial Science, 29(4), 499-507. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932097004999
    • 1996
  • Mace, Ruth, Sear, Rebecca (1996). Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, 54(2), 137-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7292(96)02691-4