Ruth Mace
ruthmace.bsky.social
Ruth Mace
@ruthmace.bsky.social

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

Psychology 35%
Sociology 19%

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.
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

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

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

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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Only a couple of weeks left to tell ONS what data you want them to collect in the 2031 Census
consultations.ons.gov.uk/census/censu...
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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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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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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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

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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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Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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

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

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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Ruby

Port from the cellar…. Happy Christmas!

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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Reposted by Rebecca Sear

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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Program
The meeting will start on Tuesday morning and will end on Thursday evening, June 16-18th 2026 .  All sessions will take place at the Lory Student Center at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,.....
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Happy Christmas!

Don’t forget to submit your #EHBEA2026 abstract before Dec 15! See you in beautiful Leiden in April! @ehbea2026.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social