Ruth Mace

@ruthmace.bsky.social

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Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL

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. .. more

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 6h

Tomorrow Tuesday Evo Anth seminar: Larissa Barker ' from Royal Holloway 'Anthropogenic noise and pygmy marmoset behaviour' @UCLanthropology DFL 3.30-5 followed by 🍷. All welcome.

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jan 9

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars

Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 7d

Tomorrow Tuesday 'evolution of male same-sexuality' Francisco Romes Jimenez @UCLanthropology DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jan 9

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars

Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

www.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Ruth Mace

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 13d

Men and women in rural Bangladesh use gender-specific kinds of religious practices to elicit more alloparental support from their religious networks. | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Religious parents receive more alloparental aid in rural Bangladesh | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Religious parents receive more alloparental aid in rural Bangladesh - Volume 8

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 14d

This week @olkcampbell.bsky.social on Cousin Marriage @ucl.ac.uk Anthropology. DFL 3.30-5PM followed by 🍷

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jan 9

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars

Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

www.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Ruth Mace

Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 14d

In a Tibetan community transitioning from subsistence farming to market work, men’s networks became more kin-focused as market participation increased, while friendships loosened. Women’s core networks stayed dense and stable across market involvement.

Gender differences in social networks under subsistence changes - HBES

– by Juan Du Quick question: If something went wrong tonight and you needed help fast—someone to watch a child, lend money, give you a ride—who comes to mind first: a friend, your own family, or your…

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18d

Only a couple of weeks left to tell ONS what data you want them to collect in the 2031 Census
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Census 2031 topic consultation - Office for National Statistics - Citizen Space

Find and participate in consultations run by the Office for National Statistics

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 18d

Social complexity is not strongly predictive of indiscriminate killing of wartime enemies in a cross-cultural sample | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Social complexity is not strongly predictive of indiscriminate killing of wartime enemies in a cross-cultural sample | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Social complexity is not strongly predictive of indiscriminate killing of wartime enemies in a cross-cultural sample - Volume 8

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 18d

Infant’s thermal balance and the evolution of the human breast – a proof-of-concept study | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Infant’s thermal balance and the evolution of the human breast – a proof-of-concept study | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Infant’s thermal balance and the evolution of the human breast – a proof-of-concept study - Volume 8

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace, Ben Barr , and 3 more Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace, Ben Barr, Smith, Zen Faulkes, Juan Ramón

Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 19d

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 21d

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

The longitudinal associations of material security and belief in God in young Americans - Volume 8

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Reposted by Rebecca Sear

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jan 9

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evolutionary Anthropology seminars

Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

www.ucl.ac.uk

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, David W. Lawson

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Jan 4

Competition for heritable wealth, not cultural group selection, drives the evolution of monogamy | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Reposted by Ruth Mace, Elena Litchman, Tuomas Mattila , and 3 more Ruth Mace, Elena Litchman, Tuomas Mattila, Jussi T. Eronen, Marta Mìrazón Lahr, Benjamin Wildermuth

Piret Avila @piretavila.bsky.social · Dec 29

📢 I'm hiring! 3-year postdoc in theoretical evolutionary ecology at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 Apply: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Theoretical-Evolutionary-Biology/1348955157/
#AcademicJobs #Postdoc #EvolutionaryEcology #TheoreticalEcology #ScienceJobs #AcademicChatter

Postdoctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Dec 25

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Dec 25

Port from the cellar…. Happy Christmas!

Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Dec 17

Dogs who were bred to cooperate with us will pay attention, whatever we say to them with any kind of intonation. New paper by Petra Dobos et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do ostensive verbal signals have a unique importance when communicating with dogs? | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Do ostensive verbal signals have a unique importance when communicating with dogs? - Volume 7

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · Dec 17

Really looking for to the evolutionary demography conference in Fort Collins in June! Includes lots of human evolutionary demography interest (and not far from Yellowstone...)
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