Under Review
Hassan, A., Lawson, D.W., Schaffnit, S.B., Urassa, M. & Sear, R. Childcare in transition: evidence that patterns of childcare differ by degree of market integration in north-western Tanzania.
Moya, C., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Colleran, H., Gerkey, D., Gibson, MA., Gurven, M., Henrich, J., Hooper, PL., Kaplan, H., Kline, MA., Koster, J., Kramer, K., Leonetti, D., Mattison, SM., Nath, D., Sanders, C., Scelza, BA., Shenk, M., Snopkowski, K., Stieglitz, J., Towner, MC., von Rueden, C., Ziker, J. & Sear, R. Intergenerational conflict may explain why parents delay the onset of their children’s reproduction: A cross-cultural analysis.
Raybould, A., Sear, R. Expectations after expecting: the impact of first birth on the fertility expectations of one child women in the USA and UK
McLean, E., Price, A.J., Palla, L., Slaymaker, E., Amoah, A., Crampin, A.C., Dube, A., Kalobekamo, F., Sear, R. Data-driven vs traditional definition of household membership and composition: does latent class analysis produce meaningful groupings?
Burger, O., Lee, R. & Sear, R. Human Evolutionary Demography (edited volume: chapters available at the book’s OSF page)
2023
Schaffnit, S.B., Page, A.E., Lynch, R., Spake, L., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Alam, N., Towner, M.C., Shenk, M.K. (2023) The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh. Evolutionary Human Sciences https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.54
2022
Lynch, R., Schaffnit, S.B., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J.H., Alam, N., Blumenfield, T., Mattison, S. and Shenk, M.K. (in press) Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women’s social networks in Bangladesh. Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22972-w
Spake, L., Hassan, A., Sear, R., Shenk, M.K., Sosis, R., Shaver, J. (2022) Editorial: Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility. Religion, Brain and Behavior https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2127212 pdf
Sear, R., Prentice, A.M. & Wells, J.C.K. (2022) Nutritional status and adult mortality in a mid-20th century Gambian population: do different types of physical ‘capital’ have different associations with mortality? History of the Family https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2022.2123842 pdf
Wells, J.C.K., Cole, T., Cortina-Borja, M., Sear, R., Leon, D.A., Marphatia, A.A., Murray, J., Wehrmeister, F.C., Oliveira, P.D., Gonçalves, H., Oliveira, I.O., Menezes, A.M.B. (2022) Life history trade-offs associated with exposure to low maternal capital are different in sons compared to daughters: evidence from a prospective Brazilian cohort. Frontiers in Public Health https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.914965
Sear, R. (2022) ‘National IQ’ datasets do not provide accurate, unbiased or comparable measures of cognitive ability worldwide. PsyArXiv. May 17. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/26vfb
Zevallos-Roberts, E., Cunningham, K., Adhikari, R., Thapa, B. & Sear, R. (2022) Beyond the mother-child dyad: is coresidence with a grandmother associated with adolescent girls’ family planning knowledge? PLoS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265276
Jaeggi, A.V., Martin, J.S., Floris, J., Bender, N., Häusler, M., Sear, R., Staub, K. (2022) Life history trade-offs in a historical population (1896-1939) undergoing rapid fertility decline: Costs of reproduction? Evolutionary Human Sciences doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2022.2
Thurstans, S., Opondo, C., Seal, A., Wells, J.C.K., Khara, T., Dolan, C., Briend, A., Myatt, M., Garenne, M., Mertens, A., Sear, R., Kerac, M. (2022) Understanding sex differences in childhood undernutrition: A narrative review Nutrients 14(5): 948 doi.org/10.3390/nu14050948
Walters, S. & Sear, R. (2022) Fertility and faith: the danger of a grand narrative. Religion, Brain & Behavior. doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2021.2023621 pdf
2021
Sear, R. (2021) Demography and the rise, apparent fall and resurgence in eugenics. Population Studies 75(Supl 1): 201-220. doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.2009013
Sigle, W., Reid, A. & Sear, R. (2021) 75 years of Population Studies: a diamond anniversary special issue. Population Studies 75(Supl 1): 1-5. doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.2006440 pdf
Moya, C., Goodman, A., Koupil, I., Sear, R. (2021) Historical context changes pathways of parental influence on reproduction: an empirical test from 20th century Sweden. Social Sciences 10(7): 260 doi.org/10.3390/socsci10070260 pdf Supplementary material
Brown, L.J. & Sear, R. (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: 100431 doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100431 OSF page with full text and supplementary material
Spake, L., Schaffnit, S.B., Sear, R., Shenk, M.K., Sosis, R., Shaver, J.H. (2021) Mother’s partnership status and allomothering networks in the United Kingdom and United States. Social Sciences 10(5): 182 doi.org/10.3390/socsci10050182 pdf Supplementary material Survey
Sear, R. (2021) The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse consequences for health. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 326: 20200020 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0020 pdf
Shenk, M.K., Morse, A.R., Mattison, S.M., Sear, R., Alam, N., Raqib, R., Kumar, A., Mim, F., Blumenfield, T., Shaver, J., Sosis, R., and Wander, K. (2021) Social support, nutrition, and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in alloparenting, kin proximity, and social network size. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 326:20200027 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0027 pdf
2020
Raybould, A. & Sear, R. Children of the (gender) revolution: a theoretical and empirical synthesis (2020) Population Studies 75(2): 169-190 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2020.1851748 OSF page with full text and supplementary material
Thurstans, S., Opondo, C., Seal, A., Wells, J.C., Khara, T., Dolan, C., Briend, A., Myatt, M., Garenne, M., Sear, R., & Kerac, M. (2020) Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition BMJ Global Health 2020;5: e004030 doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004030
Shennan, S. & Sear, R. (2020) Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 376: 20190711 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0711 pdf
Sear, R. (2020) Do human life history strategies exist? Evolution and Human Behavior 41(6): 513-526 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.004 pdf
Sear, R. (2020) Strengthening the evolutionary social sciences with more data, less ‘theory-worship’ Evolution and Human Behavior 41(5): 462-463 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.07.010 pdf
Shaver, J.H., Power, E.A., Purzycki, B., Watts, J., Sear, R., Shenk, M.K., Sosis, R., Bulbulia, J.A. (2020) Church attendance and alloparenting: An analysis of fertility, social support, and child development among English mothers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 375: 20190428. doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0428
Hazel, W, Black, R. Smock, R, Sear, R. Tompkins, J. (2020) An age-dependent ovulatory strategy explains the evolution of dizygotic twinning in humans. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4: 987–992 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1173-y pdf
Hassan, A, Schaffnit, S.B., Sear, R., Urassa, M., Lawson, D.W. (2019) Fathers favour sons, mothers don’t discriminate: sex-biased parental care in north-west Tanzania. Evolutionary Human Sciences 1 e13 doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2019.14
Brown, L.J. & Sear, R. (2019) Are mothers more likely to breastfeed in harsh environments? Physical environmental quality and breastfeeding in the Born in Bradford Study. Maternal and Child Nutrition 15(4): e12851 doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12851 pdf Supplementary material
Hedges, S., Lawson, D.W., Todd, J., Urassa, M., Sear, R. (2019) Sharing the load: the influence of co-resident children on the intra-household allocation of work and schooling in north-western Tanzania. Demography 56: 1931–1956 doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00818-x pdf Supplementary material
Borgerhoff Mulder, M.; Towner, M.; Baldini, R.; Beheim, B.; Bowles, S.; Colleran, H.; Gurven, M.; Kramer, K.; Mattison, S.; Nolin, D.; Scelza, B.; Sear, R.; Shenk, M.; Voland, E.; Ziker, J. (2019) Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 374: 20180076.
doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0076 pdf Supplementary material
Hedges, S., Sear, R., Todd, J., Urassa, M., Lawson, D.W. (2019) Earning their keep? Fostering, children’s education and work in north-western Tanzania. Demographic Research 41(10): 263-292 https://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol41/10/
Wells, J.C.K., Cole, T., Cortina-Borja, M., Sear, R., Leon, D.A., Marphatia, A.A., Murray, J., Wehrmeister, F.C., Oliveira, P.D., Gonçalves, H., Oliveira, I.O., Menezes, A.M.B. (2019) Low maternal capital predicts life history trade-offs in daughters: why adverse outcomes cluster in individuals. Frontiers in Public Health 7:206 doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00206
Stulp, G. & Sear, R. (2019) How might life history theory contribute to life course theory? Advances in Life Course Research 41: 100281 doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2019.04.011 pdf
Sear, R., Sheppard, P., & Coall, D. (2019) Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 374: 20180124 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0124 OSF page with full text and supplementary material
Hruschka, D., Sear, R. & Hackman, J. (2019) Worldwide fertility declines do not rely on stopping at ideal family sizes. Population Studies 73(1): 1-17 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2018.1513164 pdf
Hedges, S., Sear, R., Todd, J., Urassa, M. & Lawson, D.W. (2018) Trade-offs in children’s time allocation: mixed support for embodied capital models of the demographic transition in Tanzania. Current Anthropology 59(5): 644-654 doi.org/10.1086/699880 pdf Supplementary material
Coall, D., Hilbrand, S., Sear, R. & Hertwig, R. (2018) Interdisciplinary perspectives on grandparental investment: a journey towards causality. Contemporary Social Science 13(2): 159-174 doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2018.1433317 pdf
Sear, R. (2017) Family and fertility: does kin help influence women’s fertility and how does this vary worldwide? Population Horizons 14(1): 18-34 doi.org/10.1515/pophzn-2017-0006 pdf
Brown, L.J. & Sear, R. (2017) Local environmental quality positively predicts breastfeeding in the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study. Evolution, Medicine & Public Health 2017(1): 120-135 doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox011 pdf
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear, R. (2017) Supportive families versus support from families: the decision to have a child in the Netherlands. Demographic Research 37(14): 414-454 doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.14 pdf
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear, R. (2017) Support for new mothers and fertility in the United Kingdom: not all support is equal in the decision to have a second child. Population Studies 71(3): 345-361 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2017.1349924 pdf
Wells, J.C.K., Nesse, R., Sear, R., Johnstone, R., Stearns, S. (2017) Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept. Lancet 390(10093): 500-509 doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30572-X pdf
Lawson, D.W., Núñez-de la Mora, A, Cooper, G.D., Prentice, A, Moore, S.E. & Sear, R. (2017) Marital status and sleeping arrangements predict salivary testosterone in rural Gambian men. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology 3(3): 221-240 doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0066-z pdf
Sear, R. & Schaffnit, S.B. (2017) It’s not just about the future: the present pay-offs to behaviour vary in degree and kind between the rich and the poor. Behavioural & Brain Sciences 40 doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1700111X pdf
Mattison, S., & Sear, R. (2016) Modernising evolutionary anthropology. Human Nature 27(4): 335-350. doi:10.1007/s12110-016-9270-y pdf
Stulp, G., Sear, R. & Barrett, L. (2016) The reproductive ecology of industrial societies, part I: why measuring fertility matters. Human Nature 27(4): 422-444 doi:10.1007/s12110-016-9269-4 pdf
Stulp, G., Sear, R., Mills, M., Schaffnit, S.B. & Barrett, L. (2016) The reproductive ecology of industrial societies, part II: on the association between wealth and fertility. Human Nature 27(4): 455-470 doi:10.1007/s12110-016-9272-9 pdf Supplementary material
Virgo, S. & Sear, R. (2016) Area-level mortality and morbidity predict ‘abortion proportion’ in England and Wales. Evolution & Human Behaviour 37(5): 366-375 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.03.001 pdf
Sheppard, P., Pearce, M. & Sear, R. (2016) How does childhood socioeconomic hardship affect reproductive strategy? Pathways of development. American Journal of Human Biology 28(3): 356-363 doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22793 pdf
Sheppard, P. & Sear, R. (2016) Do grandparents compete with or support their grandchildren? In Guatemala, paternal grandmothers may compete, and maternal grandmothers may cooperate. Royal Society Open Science 3: 160069 doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160069 pdf
Sear, R., Lawson, D.W., Kaplan, H. & Shenk, M.K. (2016) Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 371: 20150144 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144 pdf
Moya, C., Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2016) What do men want? Re-examining whether men really can benefit from higher fertility than is optimal for women. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 371: 20150149 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0149 pdf Supplementary material
Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2016) Does grandparental help mediate the relationship between kin presence and fertility? Demographic Research. 34(17): 467-498 doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.17 pdf
Sear, R. (2016) Beyond the nuclear family: an evolutionary perspective on parenting. Current Opinion in Psychology. 7: 98-103 doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.013 pdf
Pepper, G., McAllister, L. & Sear, R. (2016) Why demography needs psychologists. The Psychologist. 29 https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/january-2016/why-demography-needs-psychologists
Coall, D.A., Hilbrand, S., Sear, R. & Hertwig, R. (2016) The theory of grandfather involvement: Interdisciplinary perspectives. In: Grandfathers: International Perspectives. Editors Ann Buchanan and Anna Rotkirch. Palgrave Macmillan. Pp 21-44 doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56338-5_2
Sheppard, P., Garcia, J.R. & Sear, R. (2015) Childhood family disruption and adult height: is there a mediating role of puberty? Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 1: 332-342 doi.org/10.1093/emph/eov028 pdf
Sear, R. (2015) Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility. Population Studies 69: sup1, S39-S55 doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.982905 pdf
Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2015) Grandparental help in Indonesia is directed preferentially towards needier descendants: a potential confounder when exploring grandparental influences on child health? Social Science & Medicine 128: 105-114 doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.01.012 pdf Supplementary material
Sear, R. (2015) Evolutionary demography: a Darwinian renaissance in demography. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Editor-in-chief: James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier. Vol 8 Pp. 406–412. pdf
Sear, R. (2015) Sociobiology. In The International Encylcopedia of Human Sexuality. Edited by Patricia Whelehan and Anne Bolin. Malden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. Pp 1333-1334. pdf
Sear, R. (2015) Book review of ‘How We Do It: the Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction’ for Population Studies doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2014.969574 pdf
Moya, C. & Sear, R. (2014) Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans. PeerJ 2:e512 doi.org/10.7717/peerj.512 pdf
Snopkowski, K., Moya, C. & Sear, R. (2014) A test of the intergenerational conflict model in Indonesia shows no evidence of earlier menopause in female-dispersing groups Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 281(1788): 20140580 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0580 pdf Supplementary material
Sheppard, P.J., Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2014) Father absence and reproduction-related outcomes in Malaysia, a transitional fertility population. Human Nature 25(2): 213-234 doi.org/10.1007/s12110-014-9195-2 pdf
Schaffnit, S.B. & Sear, R. (2014) Wealth modifies the effects of kin on women’s fertility in high-income countries. Behavioural Ecology 25(4): 834-842 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/aru059 pdf
Felisberti, F.M., & Sear, R. (2014) Postdoctoral researchers in the UK: a snapshot of factors affecting their research output. PLoS ONE 9(4): e93890 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093890
Sheppard, P.J., Schaffnit, S.B. Garcia, J.R. & Sear, R. (2014) Fostering relations: First sex and marital timings for children raised by kin and non-kin carers. Evolution and Human Behaviour 35(3): 161-168 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2013.12.002 pdf
Sheppard, P., Garcia, J. & Sear, R. (2014) A not-so-grim tale: how childhood family structure influences reproductive and risk-taking outcomes in a historical U.S. population. PLoS ONE 9(3): e89539 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089539 pdf
Nettle, D., Gibson, M.A., Lawson, D. & Sear, R. (2013) Human behavioural ecology: current research and future prospects. Behavioural Ecology 24(5): 1031-1040 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ars222 pdf Supplementary material
Mathews, P. & Sear, R. (2013) Family and fertility: kin influence on the progression to a second birth in the British Household Panel Study. PLoS ONE 8(3): e56941 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056941 pdf
Mathews, P. & Sear, R. (2013) Does the kin orientation of a British female’s social network influence her entry into motherhood? Demographic Research 28(11): 313-340 doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2013.28.11 pdf
Snopkowski, K. & Sear, R. (2013) Kin influences on fertility in Thailand: effects and mechanisms. Evolution and Human Behavior 34(2): 130-138 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.11.004 pdf Supplementary material
Nettle, D., Gibson, M.A., Lawson, D. & Sear, R. (2013) Response to commentaries: how much you need to engage with mechanism depends on what you are trying to do. Behavioural Ecology 24(5): 1046-1047 doi.org/10.1093/beheco/art020 pdf
Sheppard, P.J. & Sear, R. (2012) Father absence predicts age at sexual maturity and reproductive timing in British men. Biology Letters 8(2): 237-240 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0747 pdf
Sear, R. (2012) Comment on ‘The Peacock’s Tale: Lessons from Evolution for Effective Signaling in International Politics’ by Blumstein et al for Cliodynamics: the Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History and the online Social Evolution Forum: http://socialevolutionforum.com/
Sear, R. & Coall, D. (2011) How much does family matter? The implications of a cooperative breeding strategy for the demographic transition. Population and Development Review 37 (s1): 81-112 doi.org/10.1111/j.1728-4457.2011.00379.x pdf
Brown, G., Dickins T., Sear, R. & Laland, K. (2011) Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 366: 313-324 doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0267 pdf
Sear, R. (2011) Parenting and families. In Evolutionary Psychology: A Critical Reader. Edited by V. Swami. Wiley-Blackwell. Pp 215-250 pdf
Gibson, M. & Sear, R. (2010) Does wealth increase sibling competition for education? Evidence from two African populations on the cusp of the fertility transition. Current Anthropology 51(5): 693-701 doi.org/10.1086/655954 pdf
Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Voland, E., Ragsdale, G. & Knapp, L.A. (2010) Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, Biological Sciences 277(1681): 567-573 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.1660 pdf
Gurven, M., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hooper, P.L., Kaplan, K., Quinlan, R., Sear, R., Schniter, E., von Rueden, C. Bell, A.& Hertz, T. (2010) Domestication alone does not lead to inequality: intergenerational wealth transmission among horticulturalists. Current Anthropology 51(1): 49-64 doi.org/10.1086/648587 pdf
Sear, R. & Dickins, T.E. (2010) The generation game is the cooperation game: the role of grandparents in the timing of reproduction. Commentary in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 33(1): 34-35 doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X09991725 pdf
Sear, R. (2010) We are family. Review of ‘Mothers and Others’ by Sarah Hrdy for Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 7(4): 355-357 doi.org/10.1556/JEP.7.2009.4.9
Sear, R. (2010) Height and reproductive success: is bigger always better? In Homo Novus: A Human Without Illusions. Edited by Ulrich Frey, Charlotte Stoermer & Kai Willfuehr. Springer. Pp127-143 pdf
Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Bowles, S., Hertz, T., Bell, A., Beise, J., Clark, G., Fazzio, I., Gurven, M., Hill, K., Hooper, P.L., Irons, W., Kaplan, H., Leonetti, D., Low, B., Marlowe, F., Naidu, S., Nolin, D., Piraino, P., Quinlan, R., Sear, R., Shenk, M., Alden Smith, E. & Wiessner, P. (2009) Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies. Science 326(5953): 682-688 doi.org/10.1126/science.1178336 pdf
Sear, R. & Marlowe, F. (2009) How universal are human mate choices? Size doesn’t matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate. Biology Letters 5: 606-609 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0342 pdf
Sear, R., Allal, N. & Mace, R. (2009) Family matters: kin, demography and child health in a rural Gambian community. In Substitute Parents: Alloparenting in Human Societies. Edited by G.R. Bentley & R. Mace. Berghahn Books. Pp 50-76. pdf
Sear, R. (2008) Kin and child survival in Malawi: are matrilineal kin always beneficial in a matrilineal society? Human Nature 19(3): 277-293 doi.org/10.1007/s12110-008-9042-4 pdf
Mathews, P. & Sear, R. (2008) Life after death: an investigation into how mortality perceptions influence fertility preferences using evidence from an internet-based experiment. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 6(3): 155-172 doi.org/10.1556/JEP.6.2008.3.1 pdf
Sear, R. & Mace, R. (2008) Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival. Evolution & Human Behavior 29(1): 1-18 doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.10.001 pdf
Shanley, D.P., Sear, R., Mace, R. & Kirkwood, T.B.L. (2007) Testing evolutionary theories of menopause. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences 274(1628): 2943-2949 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1028 pdf
Sear, R., Lawson, D. & Dickins, T. (2007) Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5(1): 3-28 doi.org/10.1556/JEP.2007.1019 pdf
Sear, R. (2007) The impact of reproduction on Gambian women: does controlling for phenotypic quality reveal costs of reproduction? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 132(4): 632-641 doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.20558 pdf
Dickins, T.E., Sear, R. & Wells, A.J. (2007) Mind the gap(s)….in theory, method and data: a response to Kanazawa (2006) British Journal of Health Psychology 12: 167-178 doi.org/10.1348/135910707X174339 pdf
Sear, R. (2006) Size dependent reproductive success among Gambian men: does height or weight matter more? Social Biology 53(3-4): 172-188 doi.org/10.1080/19485565.2006.9989125 pdf
Sear, R. (2006) Height and reproductive success: how a Gambian population compares to the West. Human Nature 17(4): 405-418 doi.org/10.1007/s12110-006-1003-1 pdf
Mace, R., Allal, N., Sear, R. & Prentice, A. (2006) The uptake of modern contraception in a Gambian community: the diffusion of an innovation over 25 years. In: Social Information Transmission and Human Biology. Edited by J.C.K Wells, S.S. Strickland and K. Laland. CRC Press. pp 191-205 pdf
Sear, R. (2005) Review of ‘Biology at Work: rethinking sexual inequality’ by Kingsley R Browne for Sexualities, Evolution and Gender 7(2): 189-193, 20 doi.org/10.1080/14616660500173511 pdf
Mace, R. & Sear, R. (2005) Are humans cooperative breeders? In: Grandmotherhood – the Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life. Edited by E. Voland, A. Chasiotis & W. Schiefenhoevel. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway. pp 143-159 pdf
Sear, R., Allal, N. & Mace, R. (2004) Height, marriage and reproductive success in Gambian women. Research in Economic Anthropology 23: 203-224 doi.org/10.1016/S0190-1281(04)23008-6 pdf
Allal, N., Sear, R., 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 of London Series B, Biological Sciences 271(1538): 465-470 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2623 pdf
Sear, R., Mace, R. & McGregor, I.A. (2003) The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia. Evolution & Human Behavior 24(1): 25-42 doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00105-8 pdf
Holden, C.J., Sear, R. & Mace, R. (2003) Matriliny as daughter-biased investment. Evolution & Human Behavior 24(2): 99-112 doi.org/10.1016/S1090-5138(02)00122-8 pdf
Sear, R., Mace, R. & McGregor, I.A. (2003) A life-history analysis of fertility rates in rural Gambia: evidence for trade-offs or phenotypic correlations? In: The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility. Edited by J. Rodgers & H-P. Kohler. Kluwer Press, Boston. pp 135-160 doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1137-3_7 pdf
Sear, R., Steele, F., McGregor, I.A. & Mace, R. (2002) The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia. Demography 39(1): 43-63 doi.org/10.1353/dem.2002.0010 pdf
Sear, R., Mace, R., Shanley, D & McGregor, I.A. (2001) The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14(3): 433-443 doi.org/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00287.x pdf
Sear, R., Mace, R. & McGregor, I.A. (2000) Maternal grandmothers improve the nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 267(1453): 1641-1647 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1190 pdf
Mace, R. & Sear, R. (1997) Birth interval and the sex of children in a traditional African population: an evolutionary analysis. Journal of Biosocial Science 29(4): 499-507 doi.org/10.1017/S0021932097004999 pdf
Mace, R. & Sear, R. (1997) Reproductive decisions by pastoralists in the face of demographic risk. Nomadic Peoples (NS) 1(1): 151-163 pdf
Mace, R. & Sear, R. (1996) Maternal mortality in a Kenyan pastoralist population. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 54(2): 137-141 doi.org/10.1016/0020-7292(96)02691-4 pdf