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

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 Harriet Bulkeley FBA

Environmental governance and politics: climate change, especially cities, business and finance; low carbon transitions; urban sustainability; the nature of governing contemporary society; environmental justice

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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

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