Rebecca Sear ,FBA anthropologist and academic, who specialises inevolutionary anthropology ,demography andhuman behavioural ecology .[ 1] [ 2] Brunel University London .[ 3] London School of Economics ,Durham University and theLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine .[ 4]
Sear undertook aDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in anthropology atUniversity College London which she completed in 2001.[ 4] doctoral thesis was titled "Evolutionary demography of a rural Gambian population".[ 5]
In July 2024, she was electedFellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[ 6]
Sear, Rebecca;Mace, Ruth ; McGregor, Ian A. (22 August 2000)."Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia" .Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences .267 (1453):1641– 1647.doi :10.1098/rspb.2000.1190 .PMC 1690719 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.doi :10.2307/3088363 .ISSN 0070-3370 . Sear, Rebecca; Mace, Ruth (January 2008). "Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival".Evolution and Human Behavior .29 (1):1– 18.doi :10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.10.001 . Sear, Rebecca; Coall, David (2011)."How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition" .Population and Development Review .37 :81– 112.ISSN 0098-7921 . Burger, Oskar; Lee, Ronald; Sear, Rebecca, eds. (2024).Human Evolutionary Demography ISBN 978-1-80064-170-9
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