Rebecca Sear, FBA is a British anthropologist and academic, who specialises in evolutionary anthropology, demography and human behavioural ecology.[1][2] Since 2024, she has been director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London.[3] She previously taught at the London School of Economics, Durham University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[4]
Sear undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in anthropology at University College London which she completed in 2001.[4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Evolutionary demography of a rural Gambian population".[5]
In July 2024, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6]
Selected works
edit- Sear, Rebecca; Mace, Ruth; McGregor, Ian A. (22 August 2000). "Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 267 (1453): 1641–1647. doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1190. PMC 1690719.
- Sear, Rebecca; Steele, Fiona; McGregor, Ian A.; Mace, Ruth (2002). "The Effects of Kin on Child Mortality in Rural Gambia". Demography. 39 (1): 43–63. doi:10.2307/3088363. ISSN 0070-3370.
- Sear, Rebecca; Mace, Ruth (January 2008). "Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival". Evolution and Human Behavior. 29 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2007.10.001.
- Sear, Rebecca; Coall, David (2011). "How Much Does Family Matter? Cooperative Breeding and the Demographic Transition". Population and Development Review. 37: 81–112. ISSN 0098-7921.
- Burger, Oskar; Lee, Ronald; Sear, Rebecca, eds. (2024). Human Evolutionary Demography. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1-80064-170-9.
References
edit- ^ "Professor Rebecca Sear FBA". The British Academy. 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Spotlight on… Rebecca Sear". www.lshtm.ac.uk. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Dr Rebecca Sear". Brunel University London. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ a b "Professor Rebecca Sear" (pdf). International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. August 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ Sear, Rebecca Susan (2001). Evolutionary demography of a rural Gambian population (PhD thesis). University College London. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.