| Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival R Sear, R Mace Evolution and human behavior 29 (1), 1-18, 2008 | 831 | 2008 |
| Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia R Sear, R Mace, IA McGregor Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 399 | 2000 |
| Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies MB Mulder, S Bowles, T Hertz, A Bell, J Beise, G Clark, I Fazzio, M Gurven, ... science 326 (5953), 682-688, 2009 | 353 | 2009 |
| The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia R Sear, F Steele, IA McGregor, R Mace Demography 39 (1), 43-63, 2002 | 289 | 2002 |
| How much does family matter? Cooperative breeding and the demographic transition R Sear, D Coall Population and development review 37, 81-112, 2011 | 214 | 2011 |
| Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects D Nettle, MA Gibson, DW Lawson, R Sear Behavioral Ecology 24 (5), 1031-1040, 2013 | 168 | 2013 |
| Are humans cooperative breeders R Mace, R Sear Grandmotherhood. The evolutionary significance of the second half of female …, 2005 | 164 | 2005 |
| The effects of kin on female fertility in rural Gambia R Sear, R Mace, IA McGregor Evolution and Human Behavior 24 (1), 25-42, 2003 | 151 | 2003 |
| Matriliny as daughter-biased investment CJ Holden, R Sear, R Mace Evolution and human behavior 24 (2), 99-112, 2003 | 146 | 2003 |
| Testing evolutionary theories of menopause DP Shanley, R Sear, R Mace, TBL Kirkwood Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1628), 2943-2949, 2007 | 137 | 2007 |
| An evolutionary model of stature, age at first birth and reproductive success in Gambian women N Allal, R Sear, AM Prentice, R Mace Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 133 | 2004 |
| Grandmotherhood: The evolutionary significance of the second half of female life J Beise, B Citlak-Kisagun, L Cornell, L Gavrilov, N Gavrilova, R Harwood, ... Rutgers University Press, 2005 | 132 | 2005 |
| Birth interval and the sex of children in a traditional African population: an evolutionary analysis R Mace, R Sear Journal of biosocial science 29 (4), 499-507, 1997 | 115 | 1997 |
| Height, marriage and reproductive success in Gambian women R Sear, N Allal, R Mace Research in economic anthropology 23, 203-224, 2004 | 110 | 2004 |
| Kin and child survival in rural Malawi R Sear Human Nature 19 (3), 277, 2008 | 106 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary accounts of human behavioural diversity GR Brown, TE Dickins, R Sear, KN Laland Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366 …, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality M Fox, R Sear, J Beise, G Ragsdale, E Voland, LA Knapp Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1681), 567-573, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept JCK Wells, RM Nesse, R Sear, RA Johnstone, SC Stearns The Lancet 390 (10093), 500-509, 2017 | 87 | 2017 |
| How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate R Sear, FW Marlowe Biology Letters 5 (5), 606-609, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| The reproductive ecology of industrial societies, part I G Stulp, R Sear, L Barrett Human Nature 27 (4), 422-444, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
Ruth MaceProfessor of Evolutionary Anthropology, UCLVerified email at ucl.ac.uk
