Ruth Mace

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Ruth Mace is affiliated with the following schools: University of East Anglia, Imperial College London, University College London, University of Oxford, Lanzhou University

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Mace FBA is a British anthropologist, biologist, and academic. She specialises in the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history, and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London.

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Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival (2008) (890)
Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia (2000) (377)
Evolutionary ecology of human life history (2000) (284)
THE COMPARATIVE METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY (1994) (273)
Spread of cattle led to the loss of matrilineal descent in Africa: a coevolutionary analysis (2003) (252)
The Comparative Method in Anthropology [and Comments and Reply] (1994) (244)
The effects of kin on child mortality in rural gambia (2002) (236)
A phylogenetic approach to cultural evolution. (2005) (221)
Helpful grandmothers in rural Ethiopia: A study of the effect of kin on child survival and growth (2005) (218)
Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands (2015) (214)
Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults (2009) (211)
Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care (2009) (189)
Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific (2010) (178)
The evolution of cultural diversity : a phylogenetic approach (2005) (178)
Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies (2009) (178)
The dawn chorus in the great tit Paras major is directly related to female fertility (1987) (175)
Biased parental investment and reproductive success in Gabbra pastoralists (1996) (168)
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling (2017) (159)
On Becoming Modern (2009) (158)
An evolutionary model of stature, age at first birth and reproductive success in Gambian women (2004) (157)
The coevolution of human fertility and wealth inheritance strategies. (1998) (157)
Demography and ecology drive variation in cooperation across human populations (2011) (150)
An Energy-Saving Development Initiative Increases Birth Rate and Childhood Malnutrition in Rural Ethiopia (2006) (147)
Parental investment and the optimization of human family size (2011) (140)
The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia (2003) (138)
Conservation of biological resources (1998) (132)
Matriliny as daughter-biased investment (2003) (128)
Sibling configuration and childhood growth in contemporary British families. (2008) (119)
Sexual dimorphism in stature and women's work: a phylogenetic cross-cultural analysis. (1999) (112)
Strong mothers bear more sons in rural Ethiopia (2003) (110)
Height, Marriage and Reproductive Success in Gambian Women (2004) (108)
POLYGYNY, REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND CHILD HEALTH IN RURAL ETHIOPIA: WHY MARRY A MARRIED MAN? (2006) (108)
Macro-evolutionary studies of cultural diversity: a review of empirical studies of cultural transmission and cultural adaptation (2011) (107)
Pastoralist strategies for survival in unpredictable environments: A model of herd composition that maximises household viability (1989) (107)
Testing evolutionary theories of menopause (2007) (106)
A latitudinal gradient in the density of human languages in North America (1995) (105)
BIRTH INTERVAL AND THE SEX OF CHILDREN IN A TRADITIONAL AFRICAN POPULATION: AN EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS (1997) (102)
Families and Firewood: A Comparative Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Children in Firewood Collection and Use in Two Rural Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (2004) (102)
Are humans cooperative breeders (2005) (99)
Characterization of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative culture (2017) (96)
Optimal daily routines of singing and foraging in a bird singing to attract a mate (2004) (91)
Networks of Food Sharing Reveal the Functional Significance of Multilevel Sociality in Two Hunter-Gatherer Groups (2016) (89)
Political complexity predicts the spread of ethnolinguistic groups (2009) (86)
Practical Support from Fathers and Grandmothers Is Associated with Lower Levels of Breastfeeding in the UK Millennium Cohort Study (2015) (85)
Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion (2016) (85)
Cultural phylogeography of the Bantu Languages of sub-Saharan Africa (2013) (85)
Reproducing in Cities (2008) (78)
When to have another baby: A dynamic model of reproductive decision-making and evidence from Gabbra pastoralists (1996) (77)
Community-level education accelerates the cultural evolution of fertility decline (2014) (74)
Managing Protected Woodlands: Fuelwood Collection and Law Enforcement in Lake Malawi National Park (1999) (73)
People recognise when they are really anonymous in an economic game (2010) (70)
Fertility and Mode of Subsistence: A Phylogenetic Analysis1 (1997) (69)
Transitions Between Cultivation and Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (68)
Lost Letter Measure of Variation in Altruistic Behaviour in 20 Neighbourhoods (2012) (67)
Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks and Reproductive Success (2017) (65)
FERTILITY DECLINE DRIVEN BY POVERTY: THE CASE OF ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (2008) (65)
Siblings and childhood mental health: evidence for a later-born advantage. (2010) (64)
High mobility explains demand sharing and enforced cooperation in egalitarian hunter-gatherers (2014) (63)
Fertility decline and the changing dynamics of wealth, status and inequality (2015) (62)
Social network- and community-level influences on contraceptive use: evidence from rural Poland (2015) (62)
Is horizontal transmission really a problem for phylogenetic comparative methods? A simulation study using continuous cultural traits (2010) (60)
Optimizing Modern Family Size (2010) (58)
Importance of female behaviour in the dawn chorus (1986) (57)
Cooperation and conflict: field experiments in Northern Ireland (2014) (57)
Female reproductive competition within families in rural Gambia (2012) (57)
Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of lactose digestion in adults. (1997) (56)
Social Transmission and the Spread of Modern Contraception in Rural Ethiopia (2011) (56)
The Effect of $1, $5 and $10 Stakes in an Online Dictator Game (2013) (56)
Knowledge-Sharing Networks in Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution of Cumulative Culture (2016) (53)
Reproductive competition between females in the matrilineal Mosuo of southwestern China (2013) (53)
From bridewealth to dowry? (2006) (52)
Nomadic pastoralists adopt subsistence strategies that maximise long-term household survival (1993) (51)
Cooperation and conflict between women in the family (2013) (49)
Mode and tempo in the evolution of socio-political organization: reconciling ‘Darwinian’ and ‘Spencerian’ evolutionary approaches in anthropology (2011) (48)
An adaptive model of human reproductive rate where wealth is inherited: why people have small families (2017) (46)
Testing evolutionary hypotheses about human biological adaptation using cross-cultural comparison. (2003) (45)
Camp stability predicts patterns of hunter–gatherer cooperation (2016) (44)
Phylogenetic reconstruction of Bantu kinship challenges Main Sequence Theory of human social evolution (2014) (42)
Life history theory and human development. (2008) (41)
The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia (2001) (40)
Transformation of the French Demographic Landscape, 1806–1906. By Noel Bonneuil. Pp. 218. (Oxford University Press, 1997.) £30.00, ISBN 0-19-823340-X. (1999) (40)
Cross-cultural patterns of marriage and inheritance: A phylogenetic approach (1996) (39)
Kin influence on the decision to start using modern contraception: A longitudinal study from rural Gambia (2009) (38)
A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers (2019) (36)
Overgrazing overstated (1991) (36)
Polygyny without wealth: popularity in gift games predicts polygyny in BaYaka Pygmies (2015) (35)
The Evolution of Ethnolinguistic Diversity (2012) (34)
Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages (2018) (34)
Trade-offs between Fertility and the Economic Costs of Reproduction (2010) (34)
Communal breeding promotes a matrilineal social system where husband and wife live apart (2013) (31)
The lack of acceptance of evolutionary approaches to human behaviour. (2010) (31)
Human behavioral ecology and its evil twin (2014) (31)
The impact of the ivory trade on the African elephant Loxodonta africana population as assessed by data from the trade (1991) (30)
Local ecology influences reproductive timing in Northern Ireland independently of individual wealth (2016) (30)
The evolutionary ecology of human family size (2007) (30)
Analyses do not support the parasite-stress theory of human sociality (2012) (29)
How evolutionary behavioural sciences can help us understand behaviour in a pandemic (2020) (29)
Fertility, parental investment, and the early adoption of modern contraception in rural ethiopia (2013) (29)
Pastoralist herd compositions in unpredictable environments: A comparison of model predictions and data from camel-keeping groups (1990) (28)
Cooperation is related to dispersal patterns in Sino-Tibetan populations (2015) (27)
Inter-Group Conflict and Cooperation: Field Experiments Before, During and After Sectarian Riots in Northern Ireland (2015) (26)
Update to Holden and Mace's “Phylogenetic Analysis of the Evolution of Lactose Digestion in Adults” (1997): Revisiting the Coevolution of Human Cultural and Biological Diversity (2009) (26)
Kinship ties across the lifespan in human communities (2019) (26)
Parental investment in child health in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-national study of health-seeking behaviour (2016) (25)
Effects of local extrinsic mortality rate, crime and sex ratio on preventable death in Northern Ireland (2015) (25)
Intergenerational and Sibling Conflict Under Patrilocality (2014) (24)
Adult sex ratio and social status predict mating and parenting strategies in Northern Ireland (2017) (24)
The evolution of fairness: explaining variation in bargaining behaviour (2013) (24)
A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic Correlations? (2003) (24)
Family matters: kin, demography and child health in a rural Gambian population (2009) (24)
When not to have another baby: An evolutionary approach to low fertility (2014) (23)
Saami reindeer herders cooperate with social group members and genetic kin (2015) (22)
Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population (1996) (21)
Comparative Primate Socioecology: Evolutionary ecology and cross-cultural comparison: the case of matrilineal descent in sub-Saharan Africa (1999) (20)
Population structured by witchcraft beliefs (2018) (20)
Competition for Cooperation: variability, benefits and heritability of relational wealth in hunter-gatherers (2016) (20)
Labor‐Saving Technology and Fertility Increase in Rural Africa1 (2002) (19)
A PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUB-ADULT MORTALITY AND MODE OF SUBSISTENCE (1999) (19)
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers (2019) (19)
Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation: A maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices (2009) (18)
The relationship between social support, stressful events, and menopause symptoms (2021) (17)
Kinship as a frequency dependent strategy (2016) (17)
Variation in Male Reproductive Longevity across Traditional Societies (2014) (17)
Substitute parents: Biological and social perspectives on alloparenting across human societies (2009) (16)
Reply to Henrich et al.: Behavioral variation needs to be quantified at multiple levels (2012) (16)
Evolution of cultural traits occurs at similar relative rates in different world regions (2014) (16)
A model of household decisions in dryland agropastoral systems (1996) (16)
The evolution of human sex-ratio at birth: A bio-cultural analysis (2005) (15)
Not leaving home: grandmothers and male dispersal in a duolocal human society (2016) (15)
The Impact of Labor-Saving Technology on First Birth Intervals in Rural Ethiopia (2002) (14)
Pastoralism and the Evolution of Lactase Persistence (2002) (14)
Are humans co-operative breeders? (2005) (14)
Direct investment by stepfathers can mitigate effects on educational outcomes but does not improve behavioural difficulties (2014) (13)
A COMPARISON OF GREAT TITS' (PARUS MAJOR) USE OF TIME IN DIFFERENT DAYLENGTHS AT THREE EUROPEAN SITES (1989) (12)
The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community : the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years. (2006) (12)
Someone to live for: effects of partner and dependent children on preventable death in a population wide sample from Northern Ireland (2015) (12)
Parental investment in Tibetan populations does not reflect stated cultural norms (2017) (12)
Large-scale cooperation driven by reputation, not fear of divine punishment (2019) (11)
Adaptation to milking agropastoralism in Chilean goat herders and nutritional benefit of lactase persistence (2018) (11)
Why care for someone else’s child? Testing adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers (2019) (11)
Darwinian evolutionary theory and the social sciences (2008) (11)
Knowing your neighbourhood: local ecology and personal experience predict neighbourhood perceptions in Belfast, Northern Ireland (2016) (10)
A Phylogenetic Comparative Study of Bantu Kinship Terminology Finds Limited Support for Its Co-Evolution with Social Organisation (2016) (9)
Life history factors, personality and the social clustering of sexual experience in adolescents (2016) (9)
Maternal Nutrition and Sex Ratio at Birth in Ethiopia (2004) (9)
The Evolutionary Ecology of the Family (2015) (8)
Keeping the ivory trade banned (1991) (8)
Smaller Saami Herding Groups Cooperate More in a Public Goods Experiment (2016) (8)
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - OVERGRAZING OVERSTATED (1991) (8)
A phylogenetic approach to the evolution of cultural diversity (2010) (8)
The relationship between daily routines of singing and foraging: an experiment on captive Great Tits Parus major (2008) (8)
Sexual frequency is associated with age of natural menopause: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (2020) (7)
Social science: The cost of children (2013) (7)
Human behaviour: Fair game (2000) (7)
Phylogenies and cultural evolution (1997) (7)
Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages (2020) (7)
Cultural extinction in evolutionary perspective (2021) (6)
Current ecology, not ancestral dispersal patterns, influences menopause symptom severity (2019) (6)
Why the Son-bias in Caregiving? Testing Sex-differences in the Associations Between Paternal Caregiving and Child Outcomes in England (2020) (6)
Mode and Tempo in the Evolution of Socio-Political Organization (2011) (6)
Are humans communal breeders (2004) (5)
Our Social Roots: How Local Ecology Shapes Our Social Structures (2011) (5)
Adaptive Strategies Adopted by Herders Against the Decollectivization of Rangeland in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau in China (2019) (5)
A phylogenetic analysis of revolution and afterlife beliefs (2021) (5)
Comparison of social complexity in two independent pastoralist societies (2019) (5)
Dos and don'ts, whys and wherefores (1999) (4)
Evolutionary Interpretations of the Diversity of Reproductive Health and Disease (1999) (4)
Perspectives on human health and disease from evolutionary and behavioral ecology (2010) (4)
A dynamic framework for the study of optimal birth intervals reveals the importance of sibling competition and mortality risks (2015) (4)
Editorial – Looking forward to a new year (2020) (4)
Social Behaviour: Social behaviour in humans (2010) (3)
The cow is the enemy of matriliny: using phylogenetic methods to study cultural evolution in Africa (2005) (3)
Determinants of Age at First Marriage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2013) (3)
Sex inequality driven by dispersal (2022) (3)
The role of cultural group selection in explaining human cooperation is a hard case to prove (2016) (3)
Reproductive Decisions by Gabbra Pastoralists in the Face of Demographic Risks (1997) (3)
The evolutionary ecology of human population growth (2000) (3)
Contrasts and conflicts in Anthropology and Archaeology: the evolutionary/interpretive dichotomy in human behavioural research (2011) (3)
Knowledge-Sharing Networks in Hunter-Gatherers and the Evolution Cumulative (3)
Correction: Social Transmission and the Spread of Modern Contraception in Rural Ethiopia (2011) (3)
The future of evolutionary medicine: sparking innovation in biomedicine and public health (2023) (3)
Evolutionary ecology of the human female life history (2001) (2)
The history and geography of human genes: by L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, P. Menozzi and A. Piazza Princeton University Press, 1994. £150.00 hbk (xiii + 1032 pages) ISBN 0 691 08750 4 (1995) (2)
Marriage stability in a pastoralist society (2019) (2)
Great tits choose between food and proximity to a mate (1989) (2)
High-resolution maps of hunter-gatherer social networks reveal human adaptation for cultural exchange (2016) (2)
Changes in post-marital residence precede changes In descent systems in Austronesian societies (2007) (2)
Introduction to Part II: on the use of phylogenetic comparative methods to test co-evolutionary hypotheses across cultures (2005) (2)
Determinants of fertility in rural Gambia: an evolutionary ecological approach (2001) (1)
WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO (1995) (1)
Religious celibacy brings inclusive fitness benefits (2022) (1)
Cooperative breeding among Agta foragers: How reproduction, health and transition intersect today (2016) (1)
CHAPTER 11 THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN SEX RATIO AT BIRTH : A BIOCULTURAL ANALYSIS (2005) (1)
Body Size and Reproductive Success Among Women in Rural Gambia (2002) (1)
The pros and cons of substitute parenting: An overview (2009) (1)
Why the son-bias in fathering? Testing sex-differences in the associations between paternal caregiving and child outcomes in England (Pre-print) (2018) (1)
Matching Local Knowledge and Environmental Change with Policy Changes in Rangeland Tenure (2021) (1)
Hamilton's rule and kin competition in a finite kin population. (2021) (1)
Grandpaternal care and child survival in a pastoralist society in western China (2022) (1)
Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanisms for the 1 Neolithic expansion 2 3 (2016) (1)
Communal breeding by women is associated with lower investment from husbands (2022) (1)
Social status mediates the effect of the adult sex ratio on mating and parenting strategies (2017) (0)
Religious celibacy brings kin-selected benefits (2021) (0)
Cooperation and partner choice among Agta hunter-gatherer children: An evolutionary developmental perspective (2023) (0)
Supplementary material from "Knowing your neighbourhood: local ecology and personal experience predict neighbourhood perceptions in Belfast, Northern Ireland" (2016) (0)
Human Behavioural Ecology (2002) (0)
Characterisation of hunter-gatherer networks and implications for cumulative 1 culture 2 3 4 5 (2016) (0)
An evolutionary perspective on kin care directed up the generations (2021) (0)
Editorial – The future depends on how we choose to behave (2020) (0)
Making Conservation Work (1998) (0)
Me and my telescope (2019) (0)
Analysing the evolutionary function of reproductive behaviour (2020) (0)
Supplementary material from "Adult sex ratio and social status predict mating and parenting strategies in Northern Ireland" (2017) (0)
Culture without tears (2005) (0)
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in Agta foragers (2019) (0)
hunter-gatherer networks implications culture. (2016) (0)
Hunter-Gatherer Social Networks and Reproductive Success (2017) (0)
Rape and Reason: Evolution, Gender and Rape edited by Cheryl Brown Travis. The MIT Press, 2003. £16.50, hbk (545 pages) ISBN 0 262 70090 5 (2003) (0)
Kinship (Human), Evolutionary and Biosocial Approaches to (2018) (0)
Optimal Birth Intervals model v1.0 (2015) (0)
Harvesting and Ecological Realities (1998) (0)
Decision-Making by Users of Biological Resources (1998) (0)
Limits to stochastic dynamic programming (1991) (0)
Supplementary material from "Sexual frequency is associated with age of natural menopause: results from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation" (2020) (0)
Why care for someone else ’ s child ? Testing 1 adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers 2 3 (2019) (0)
Population control (1993) (0)
Comparison of social complexity in two independent pastoralist societies (2019) (0)
Practical Considerations When Applying the Theory (1998) (0)
Evolution and human behavioural diversity (2015) (0)
Intergenerational and Sibling Conflict Under Patrilocality (2013) (0)
The Ecological and Economic Theory of Sustainable Harvesting (1998) (0)
Sixteen. Testing Functional Hypotheses about Cross-Cultural Variation (2019) (0)
The Impact of a Labor-saving Technology on Fertility in Rural Ethiopia (2001) (0)
adaptation empirical studies of cultural transmission and cultural Macro-evolutionary studies of cultural diversity : a review of References (2010) (0)
Cultural Evolution in (2010) (0)
Sex differences in costly signaling in rural Western China (2023) (0)
A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans (2022) (0)
Human Reproduction and Life Histories (2006) (0)
Subsistence Strategies and Subsistence Transitions (2002) (0)
Birth order and reproductive success (1997) (0)
CHAPTER 5. Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution (2018) (0)
Different predictors of intimate partner and natal family violence against women (2022) (0)
Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Cultural Evolution (2017) (0)
Why are stepfathers detrimental to child development? Exploring the effects of stepfathers on multiple child outcomes in the UK (2013) (0)
Effect of contraceptive access on birth rate - Response (2008) (0)
Labor-saving Technology Increases Fertility in Rural Ethiopia (2002) (0)
1 Why care for someone else’s child? Testing 1 adaptive hypotheses in Agta foragers 2 (2019) (0)
Testing adaptive hypotheses of alloparenting in 1 Agta foragers 2 3 (2019) (0)
Morals, menarche and motherhood (2000) (0)
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society (2023) (0)
Population structured by witchcraft beliefs (2018) (0)
( refereed ) Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population (2005) (0)
Publisher Correction: Dated phylogeny suggests early Neolithic origin of Sino-Tibetan languages (2021) (0)
A phylogenetic analysis of revolution and afterlife beliefs (2021) (0)
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling (2017) (0)
Revolution and the afterlife: a phylogenetic analysis of religious beliefs (2021) (0)
Same-sex competition and sexual conflict expressed through witchcraft accusations (2022) (0)
Smaller Saami Herding Groups Cooperate More in a Public Goods Experiment (2016) (0)

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