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Recent Publications
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
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
Religiosity is associated with greater size, kin density, and geographic dispersal of women’s social networks in Bangladesh
Lynch, R., Schaffnit, S., Sear, R., Sosis, R., Shaver, J., Alam, N., Blumenfield, T., Mattison, S. M. & Shenk, M., Dec 2022, In: Scientific reports. 12, 1, 18780.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Context Specificity of “Market Integration” among the Matrilineal Mosuo of Southwest China
Mattison, S. M., Hare, D., Maclaren, N. G., Reynolds, A. Z., Sum, C. Y., Liu, R., Shenk, M. K., Blumenfield, T., Su, M., Li, H. & Wander, K., Feb 2022, In: Current anthropology. 63, 1, p. 118-124 7 p.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
Faith and fertility in evolutionary perspective
Shaver, J. H., Spake, L., Lynch, R. & Shenk, M. K., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 417-425 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Disentangling the relationships between religion and fertility
Spake, L., Hassan, A., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Shaver, J. H., 2022, In: Religion, Brain and Behavior. 12, 4, p. 343-346 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Hierarchy, Resentment, and Pride: Politics of Identity and Belonging among Mosuo, Yi, and Han in Southwest China
Sum, C. Y., Blumenfield, T., Shenk, M. K. & Mattison, S. M., May 2022, In: Modern China. 48, 3, p. 568-592 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: Complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size
Shenk, M. K., Morse, A., Mattison, S. M., Sear, R., Alam, N., Raqib, R., Kumar, A., Haque, F., Blumenfield, T., Shaver, J., Sosis, R. & Wander, K., Jun 21 2021, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376, 1827, 20200027.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mother’s partnership status and allomothering networks in the united kingdom and united states
Spake, L., Schaffnit, S. B., Sear, R., Shenk, M. K., Sosis, R. & Shaver, J. H., May 2021, In: Social Sciences. 10, 5, 182.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review