Brooke A Scelza
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Hagen R, Scelza B
Evol Hum Sci
. 2024 Feb;
6:e10.
PMID: 38414809
Sexual conflict theory has been successfully applied to predict how in non-human animal populations, sex ratios can lead to conflicting reproductive interests of females and males and affect their bargaining...
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Page A, Ringen E, Koster J, Borgerhoff Mulder M, Kramer K, Shenk M, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 Feb;
121(9):e2318181121.
PMID: 38346210
While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence is lacking. We tested whether subsistence...
3.
Scelza B
Evol Anthropol
. 2024 Feb;
33(3):e22023.
PMID: 38340074
Concerns about cuckoldry are a dominant theme in evolutionary studies of mating, frequently used to explain sex differences in reproductive strategies. However, studies in nonhuman species have shown that cuckoldry...
4.
Prall S, Scelza B
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
2:e45.
PMID: 37588368
Where autonomy for partner choice is high, partner preferences may be shaped by both social and ecological conditions. In particular, women's access to resources can influence both the type and...
5.
Scelza B, Prall S
Arch Sex Behav
. 2023 Feb;
52(4):1355-1363.
PMID: 36811815
Extramarital partnerships are highly stigmatized in many societies and are typically excluded from studies of family dynamics and social support. Nevertheless, in many societies such relationships are common and can...
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Hagen R, Knorr D, Li S, Mensing A, Scelza B
Behav Brain Sci
. 2022 Jul;
45:e137.
PMID: 35875968
We argue that Benenson et al. need to consider not only sex differences in the effects of care on offspring survival but also in age-specific fertility when predicting how longevity...
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Scelza B, Atkinson E, Prall S, McElreath R, Sheehama J, Henn B
Evol Hum Sci
. 2021 Aug;
2.
PMID: 34423234
The rapidly decreasing costs of generating genetic data sequencing and the ease of new DNA collection technologies have opened up new opportunities for anthropologists to conduct field-based genetic studies. An...
8.
Hagen R, Scelza B
Evol Med Public Health
. 2020 Oct;
2020(1):161-173.
PMID: 33072326
Background And Objectives: How do new ideas spread in social groups? We apply the framework of cultural evolution theory to examine what drives change in perinatal care norms among Himba...
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Prall S, Scelza B
Proc Biol Sci
. 2020 Mar;
287(1922):20192890.
PMID: 32156214
Paternal investment is predicted to be a facultative calculation based on expected fitness returns and modulated by a host of social predictors including paternity uncertainty. However, the direct role of...
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Scelza B, Hinde K
Hum Nat
. 2019 Dec;
30(4):371-397.
PMID: 31802396
Maternal grandmothers play a key role in allomaternal care, directly caring for and provisioning their grandchildren as well as helping their daughters with household chores and productive labor. Previous studies...