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Recent Publications
Nuclearization of maternal support networks in the UK and the US during the COVID-19 pandemic: Impact on women's financial and emotional wellbeing
Hassan, A., Spake, L., Shaver, J. H., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Sear, R., Jan 2024, In: Social Sciences and Humanities Open. 10, 100932.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Evolutionary medicine approaches to chronic disease: The case of irritable bowel syndrome
Lenover, M. B. & Shenk, M. K., Feb 2024, In: Evolutionary anthropology. 33, 1, e22010.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters
Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Mulder, M. B., Kramer, K., Shenk, M. K., Stieglitz, J., Starkweather, K., Ziker, J. P., Boyette, A. H., Colleran, H., Moya, C., Du, J., Mattison, S. M., Greaves, R., Sum, C. Y., Liu, R., Lew-Levy, S., Ntamboudila, F. K. & Prall, S. & 23 others, , Feb 27 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 121, 9, e2318181121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A practical guide to cross-cultural and multi-sited data collection in the biological and behavioural sciences
Spake, L., Hassan, A., Schaffnit, S. B., Alam, N., Amoah, A. S., Badjie, J., Cerami, C., Crampin, A., Dube, A., Kaye, M. P., Kotch, R., Liew, F., McLean, E., Munthali-Mkandawire, S., Mwalwanda, L., Petersen, A. C., Prentice, A. M., Zohora, F. T., Watts, J. & Sear, R. & 3 others, , Apr 24 2024, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 291, 2021, 20231422.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Religious women receive more allomaternal support from non-partner kin in two low-fertility countries
Spake, L., Schaffnit, S. B., Page, A. E., Hassan, A., Lynch, R., Watts, J., Sosis, R., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K. & Shaver, J. H., May 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 3, p. 268-280 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Responsibility, social aspirations, and contemporary low fertility: a case study of rural West Bengal, India
Das, K., Ghosh, S. & Shenk, M. K., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Asian Population Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Does gender structure social networks across domains of cooperation? An exploration of gendered networks among matrilineal and patrilineal Mosuo
Mattison, S. M., MacLaren, N. G., Sum, C. Y., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T. & Wander, K., Jan 16 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1868, 20210436.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Gender disparities in material and educational resources differ by kinship system
Mattison, S. M., Mattison, P. M., Beheim, B. A., Liu, R., Blumenfield, T., Sum, C. Y., Shenk, M. K., Seabright, E. & Alami, S., Aug 14 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1883, 20220299.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Mattison, S. M., MacLaren, N., Sum, C. Y., Mattison, P. M., Liu, R., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T., Su, M., Li, H. & Wander, K., Nov 21 2023, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5, e4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Why did foraging, horticulture and pastoralism persist after the Neolithic transition? the oasis theory of agricultural intensification
Medupe, D., Roberts, S. G., Shenk, M. K. & Glowacki, L., Aug 14 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 378, 1883, 20220300.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals
Ross, C. T., Hooper, P. L., Smith, J. E., Jaeggi, A. V., Smith, E. A., Gavrilets, S., tuz Zohora, F., Ziker, J., Xygalatas, D., Wroblewski, E. E., Wood, B., Winterhalder, B., Willführ, K. P., Willard, A. K., Walker, K., von Rueden, C., Voland, E., Valeggia, C., Vaitla, B. & Urlacher, S. & 84 others, , 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 22, e2220124120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh
Schaffnit, S. B., Page, A. E., Lynch, R., Spake, L., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Alam, N., Towner, M. C. & Shenk, M. K., Dec 12 2023, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5, e5.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Betel quid use is associated with anemia among both men and women in Matlab, Bangladesh
Sznajder, K. K., Shenk, M., Alam, N., Raqib, R., Kumar, A., Haque, F., Blumenfield, T., Mattison, S. M. & Wander, K., Jun 2023, In: PLOS Global Public Health. 3, 6, e0001677.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Dowry Inflation: Perception or Reality?
Lankes, J., Shenk, M. K., Towner, M. C. & Alam, N., Aug 2022, In: Population Research and Policy Review. 41, 4, p. 1641-1672 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Fertility and faith: insights from human behavioral ecology, evolutionary psychology, and life history theory
Lynch, R., Shenk, M. K., Shaver, J. H. & Spake, L., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 406-413 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review