Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCL
Ruth Mace FBA is a British anthropologist, biologist, and academic. She specialises in the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history, and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London. .. more
University College London; Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse; Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace, Stephen D. Murphy
Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Ruth Mace, Hugo Mercier , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Ruth Mace, Hugo Mercier, Maria Abreu, Georg Weizsäcker
Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
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We are glad to host the Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences from 26 May to 19 June 2026 — a great opportunity for PhD students in economics, political science, and other social sciences.
Application: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
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Reposted by Diane Coyle, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell , and 32 more Diane Coyle, Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Dorothy Bishop, Stephen P. Jenkins, Ruth Mace, Steve Peers, Melissa Terras, Dave O’Brien, Tom Shakespeare, Stuart Elden, Martin Paul Eve, Joan E. Taylor, Charles West, Lyn Robinson, Lesley A. Hall, Roger Luckhurst, Rebecca Sear, Lucy Munro, Kris Inwood, Elaine Treharne, Felicity Callard, Caroline T. Schroeder, Margot C. Finn, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Tim Hitchcock, Michael H. Whitworth, Jonathan Tummons, Larry W. Hunter, Toni Haastrup, Kathleen Kennedy, Carmen M. Mangion, Adrian Streete, Jennifer Thomson, Lorna Hughes
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Reposted by Ruth Mace, Lesley A. Hall, Molly Scott Cato
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Reposted by Ruth Mace, Rebecca Sear, Hansraj Gautam
Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace, Lesley A. Hall , and 1 more Joanna Bryson, Ruth Mace, Lesley A. Hall, Rebecca Sear
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
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Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Using long-term data from the Tsimane, we show that the differences between boys and girls in how their object play develops are linked to the different subsistence roles of men and women.
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