Professor Ruth Mace FBA

The evolution of human behaviour and culture, especially demography and anthropology; the evolutionary ecology of reproduction, cultural phylogenetics, and the evolution of co-operative behaviour

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Subjects: Anthropology
Sections: Anthropology and Geography
Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/academic_staff/r_mace

Current post

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University College London

Publications

Cooperation is related to dispersal patterns in Sino-Tibetan populations.. Nature communications, 6 8693 2015

The rise and fall of political complexity in Island South-East Asia and the Pacific. Nature 467(7317): 801-804 2010

Cooperation and conflict: field experiments in Northern Ireland. Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281 (1792) 2014

The evolution of cultural diversity: a phylogenetic approach 2005

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Karin Barber FBA

I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in popular culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. Most of my research has been in the Yoruba-speaking area of Nigeria, and I am currently working on early Yoruba print culture.

Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

Professor Dawn Chatty FBA

Middle Eastern ethnography particularly prolonged forced migration, and forced settlement of mobile indigenous peoples as well as biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the politics of pastoral livelihoods

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