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Parental investment and the optimization of human family size by Lawson, David W., Mace, Ruth

“…Human reproductive behaviour is marked by exceptional variation at the population and individual level. Human behavioural ecologists propose adaptive…”
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The offspring quantity–quality trade-off and human fertility variation by Lawson, David W., Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique

“…The idea that trade-offs between offspring quantity and quality shape reproductive behaviour has long been central to economic perspectives on fertility. It…”
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Human behavioral ecology: current research and future prospects by Nettle, Daniel, Gibson, Mhairi A., Lawson, David W., Sear, Rebecca

“…Human behavioral ecology (HBE) is the study of human behavior from an adaptive perspective. It focuses in particular on how human behavior varies with…”
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Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography? by Sear, Rebecca, Lawson, David W., Kaplan, Hillard, Shenk, Mary K.

“…Decades of research on human fertility has presented a clear picture of how fertility varies, including its dramatic decline over the last two centuries in…”
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Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society by Goodman, Anna, Koupil, Ilona, Lawson, David W.

“…Adaptive accounts of modern low human fertility argue that small family size maximizes the inheritance of socioeconomic resources across generations and may…”
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"I have never seen something like that": Discrepancies between lived experiences and the global health concept of child marriage in northern Tanzania by Schaffnit, Susan B, Urassa, Mark, Wamoyi, Joyce, Dardoumpa, Maria, Lawson, David W

“…The concept of 'child marriage' in global health distinguishes ostensibly harmful from healthy ages to marry at a universally-applied threshold of 18-years…”
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The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival by Lawson, David W., Alvergne, Alexandra, Gibson, Mhairi A.

“…Evolutionary models of human reproduction argue that variation in fertility can be understood as the local optimization of a life-history trade-off between…”
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What does the American public know about child marriage? by Lawson, David W, Lynes, Rachel, Morris, Addison, Schaffnit, Susan B, Withers, Mellissa H

“…Global efforts to eradicate 'child marriage' (<18 years) increasingly target governments, the private sector and the general public as agents of change…”
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No evidence that polygynous marriage is a harmful cultural practice in northern Tanzania by Lawson, David W., James, Susan, Ngadaya, Esther, Ngowi, Bernard, Mfinanga, Sayoki G. M., Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff

“…Polygyny is cross-culturally common and a topic of considerable academic and policy interest, often deemed a harmful cultural practice serving the interests of…”
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Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania by Hedges, Sophie, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, James, Susan, Lawson, David W

“…Abstract Evolutionary and economic models of the demographic transition argue that economic development incentivizes low-fertility, high-investment parental…”
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Trade-Offs in Children’s Time Allocation: Mixed Support for Embodied Capital Models of the Demographic Transition in Tanzania by Hedges, Sophie, Sear, Rebecca, Todd, Jim, Urassa, Mark, Lawson, David W.

“…Embodied capital theory (ECT) argues that socioeconomic “modernization” leads to high-cost, high-return parental investments in education, in turn…”
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Ethnicity and child health in northern Tanzania: Maasai pastoralists are disadvantaged compared to neighbouring ethnic groups by Lawson, David W, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Ghiselli, Margherita E, Ngadaya, Esther, Ngowi, Bernard, Mfinanga, Sayoki G M, Hartwig, Kari, James, Susan

“…The Maasai of northern Tanzania, a semi-nomadic ethnic group predominantly reliant on pastoralism, face a number of challenges anticipated to have negative…”
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"Child marriage" in context: exploring local attitudes towards early marriage in rural Tanzania by Schaffnit, Susan B., Urassa, Mark, Lawson, David W.

“…A global campaign to end "child marriage" has emerged over the last decade as part of growing international commitments to address gender inequities and…”
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Applying evolutionary anthropology by Gibson, Mhairi A., Lawson, David W.

“…Evolutionary anthropology provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding how both current environments and legacies of past selection shape human…”
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Gendered conflict in the human family by Lawson, David W, Alami, Sarah, Somefun, Oluwaseyi Dolapo

“…Sexual conflict is a thriving area of animal behaviour research. Yet parallel research in the evolutionary human sciences remains underdeveloped and has become…”
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Married Too Young? The Behavioral Ecology of ‘Child Marriage’ by Schaffnit, Susan B., Lawson, David W.

“…For girls and women, marriage under 18 years is commonplace in many low-income nations today and was culturally widespread historically. Global health…”
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Why marry early? Parental influence, agency and gendered conflict in Tanzanian marriages by Baraka, Jitihada, Lawson, David W, Schaffnit, Susan B, Wamoyi, Joyce, Urassa, Mark

“…Global health interventions increasingly target the abolishment of 'child marriage' (marriage under 18 years, hereafter referred to as 'early marriage')…”
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“Modernization” increases parental investment and sibling resource competition: evidence from a rural development initiative in Ethiopia by Gibson, Mhairi A, Lawson, David W

“…Abstract Evolutionary models of parental investment often assume that negative effects of competition between offspring (i.e., quantity-quality trade-off…”
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Misperception of peer beliefs reinforces inequitable gender norms among Tanzanian men by Lawson, David W, Chen, Zhian, Kilgallen, Joseph A, Brand, Charlotte O, Ishungisa, Alexander M, Schaffnit, Susan B, Kumogola, Yusufu, Urassa, Mark

“…Gender role ideology, i.e. beliefs about how genders should behave, is shaped by social learning. Accordingly, if perceptions about the beliefs of others are…”
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Sibling configuration predicts individual and descendant socioeconomic success in a modern post-industrial society by Lawson, David W, Makoli, Arijeta, Goodman, Anna

“…Growing up with many siblings, at least in the context of modern post-industrial low fertility, low mortality societies, is predictive of relatively poor…”
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