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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies by Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Bowles, Samuel, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian, Beise, Jan, Clark, Greg, Fazzio, Ila, Gurven, Michael, Hill, Kim, Hooper, Paul L, Irons, William, Kaplan, Hillard, Leonetti, Donna, Low, Bobbi, Marlowe, Frank, McElreath, Richard, Naidu, Suresh, Nolin, David, Piraino, Patrizio, Quinlan, Rob, Schniter, Eric, Sear, Rebecca, Shenk, Mary, Smith, Eric Alden, von Rueden, Christopher, Wiessner, Polly

“…Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We…”
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Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality by Fox, Molly, Sear, Rebecca, Beise, Jan, Ragsdale, Gillian, Voland, Eckart, Knapp, Leslie A.

“…Biologists use genetic relatedness between family members to explain the evolution of many behavioural and developmental traits in humans, including altruism,…”
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Opposite Effects of Maternal and Paternal Grandmothers on Infant Survival in Historical Krummhörn by Voland, Eckart, Jan Beise

“…On the basis of church register entries from the Krummhörn region (Ostfriesland, Germany, 1720-1874) we looked at whether the existence of grandmothers had an…”
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When Females Should Contest for Food - Testing Hypotheses about Resource Density, Distribution, Size, and Quality with Hanuman Langurs (Presbytis entellus) by Andreas Koenig, Jan Beise, Mukesh K. Chalise, Ganzhorn, Jörg U.

“…Predictions of ecological models on female social relationships (van Schaik 1989) and their links with food distribution and the potential competitive regime…”
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Demographic challenges and opportunities for child health programming in Africa and Asia by You, Danzhen, Beise, Jan, Lee, Sinae, Requejo, Jennifer, Strong, Kathleen

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Intrafamilial resource competition and mate competition shaped social-group-specific natal dispersal in the 18th and 19th century Krummhörn population by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

“…We describe the natal dispersal patterns of the Krummhörn population as the outcome of intrafamilial competition. Depending on the affiliation with a specific…”
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists: Foundations of Agrarian Inequality by Shenk, Mary K., Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Beise, Jan, Clark, Gregory, Irons, William, Leonetti, Donna, Low, Bobbi S., Bowles, Samuel, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian, Piraino, Patrizio

“…This paper uses data from eight past and present societies practicing intensive agriculture to measure the transmission of wealth across generations in…”
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A multilevel event history analysis of the effects of grandmothers on child mortality in a historical German population (Krummhörn, Ostfriesland, 1720-1874) by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

“…We analyzed data from the historic population of the Krummhörn (Ostfriesland, Germany, 1720-1874) to determine the effects of grandparents in general and…”
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Effect of producing sons on maternal longevity in premodern populations by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

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Differential infant mortality viewed from an evolutionary biological perspective by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

“…Evidence from family reconstitution studies suggests that variations in infant mortality may reflect differences in parental solicitude. For various proximate…”
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Transmission of migration propensity increases genetic divergence between populations by Gagnon, Alain, Toupance, Bruno, Tremblay, Marc, Beise, Jan, Heyer, Evelyne

“…The advent of molecular genetics has brought invaluable information, which is now routinely used by anthropologists in their attempt to reconstruct our…”
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists: Foundations of Agrarian Inequality : Intergenerational wealth transmission and inequality in premodern societies by SHENK, Mary K, BORGERHOFF MULDER, Monique, PIRAINO, Patrizio, BEISE, Jan, CLARK, Gregory, IRONS, William, LEONETTI, Donna, LOW, Bobbi S, BOWLES, Samuel, HERTZ, Tom, BELL, Adrian

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Bilanzen des Alters — oder: Was lehren uns ostfriesische Kirchenbücher über die Evolution von Großmüttern? by Voland, Eckart, Beise, Jan

“…In the course of human evolution something happened, but anthropologists are unable to agree on why it happened: Humans can become twice as old as their ape…”
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A multilevel event history analysis of the effects of grandmothers on child mortality in a historical German population: Krummhörn, Ostfriesland, 1720-1874 by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

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A Multilevel Event History Analysis of the Effects of Grandmothers on Child Mortality in a Historical German Population (Krummhorn, Ostfriesland, 1720-1874) by Beise, Jan, Voland, Eckart

“…We analyzed data from the historic population of the Krummhorn (Ostfriesland, Germany, 1720-1874) to determine the effects of grandparents in general &…”
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Agriculturalists by Shenk, Mary K., Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Beise, Jan, Clark, Gregory, Irons, William, Leonetti, Donna, Low, Bobbi S., Bowles, Samuel, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian, Piraino, Patrizio

“…This paper uses data from eight past and present societies practicing intensive agriculture to measure the transmission of wealth across generations in…”
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Genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing among CEPH siblings by Gagnon, Alain, Beise, Jan, Vaupel, J. W.

“…The concept of genetic identity‐by‐descent (IBD) has markedly advanced our understanding of the genetic similarity among relatives and triggered a number of…”
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Mobile Phone Data for Children on the Move: Challenges and Opportunities by Sekara, Vedran, Omodei, Elisa, Healy, Laura, Beise, Jan, Hansen, Claus, You, Danzhen, Blume, Saskia, Garcia-Herranz, Manuel

“…Today, 95% of the global population has 2G mobile phone coverage and the number of individuals who own a mobile phone is at an all time high. Mobile phones…”
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Balancing age - what there is to learn from the evolution of grandmothers by Voland, Eckart, Beise, Jan

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Infant mortality in Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries by Lee, W.Robert, Marschalck, Peter

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