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 Eyal Weizman FBA

The development, employment and presentation of advanced spatial and media evidence in the context of investigations into human rights violations and environmental destruction worldwide

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Professor Philippe Descola FBA

The ethnology of Amazonian Indians, especially of their use and perception of the environment; the comparative anthropology of the relations between nature and society

Professor James Secord FBA

History of science; science communication; natural history, evolution and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries

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