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Recent Publications
Maternal religiosity and social support to mothers: helpers’ religious identity matters
Chvaja, R., Spake, L., Hassan, A., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R., Sear, R. & Shaver, J. H., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Religion, Brain and Behavior.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India
Chvaja, R., Shaver, J. H., Spake, L., Hassan, A., Alam, N., Rai, R. K., Sear, R., Sosis, R. & Shenk, M. K., Aug 20 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2053, 20251352.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Physical Activity and Irritable Bowel Syndrome: The Role of Evolutionary Mismatch in Chronic Disease Risk
Lenover Moyer, M. B. & Shenk, M. K., Aug 2025, In: American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 187, 4, e70104.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Developmental Origins of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Lenover Moyer, M. B., Jasani, K., Waldman, A. B., Chinchilli, V. M. & Shenk, M. K., Jan 2025, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 37, 1, e24209.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Life Course Timing of Mortality Exposure and Fertility Behavior
Newmyer, L., McAllister, L., Alam, N. & Shenk, M. K., Jun 2025, In: Population Research and Policy Review. 44, 3, 27.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., 2024, In: Asian Population Studies. 20, 3, p. 308-326 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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
Religious Involvement Is Associated With Higher Fertility and Lower Maternal Investment, but More Alloparental Support Among Gambian Mothers
Shaver, J. H., Chvaja, R., Spake, L., Hassan, A., Badjie, J., Prentice, A. M., Cerami, C., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K. & Sosis, R., Dec 2024, In: American Journal of Human Biology. 36, 12, e24144.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Intensive Kinship, Development, and Demography: Why Pakistan has the Highest Rates of Cousin Marriage in the World
Shenk, M. K., Naz, S. & Chaudhry, T., Dec 2024, In: Population and Development Review. 50, 4, p. 1045-1090 46 p.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
Cost structures and socioecological conditions impact the fitness outcomes of human alloparental care in agent-based model simulations
Weitzel, E. M., Wilson, K. M., Spake, L., Schaffnit, S. B., Lynch, R., Sear, R., Shaver, J. H., Shenk, M. K. & Sosis, R., Sep 2024, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 45, 5, 106613.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