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Ruth Mace
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 212
Citations - 11290
Ruth Mace is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fertility. The author has an hindex of 58, co-authored 197 publications receiving 10212 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruth Mace include Imperial College London & Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology.
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Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival
Rebecca Sear,Ruth Mace +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the evidence for whether the presence of kin affects child survival rates, in order to infer whether mothers do receive help in raising offspring and who provides this help, and find that in almost all studies, at least one relative does improve the survival rates of children but that relatives differ in whether they are consistently beneficial to children or not.
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Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia.
TL;DR: It is found that the only kin to improve the nutritional status of children significantly (apart from mothers) are maternal grandmothers, and that this is reflected in higher survival probabilities for children with living mothers and women, and in the presence of non–reproductive grandmothers.
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The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia
TL;DR: The mother’s remarriage to a new husband had a detrimental effect on child survival, but there was little difference in the mortality rates of children who were born to monogamous or polygynous fathers.
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Evolutionary ecology of human life history.
TL;DR: The evolution of menopause, the curtailing of female reproduction long before death, and parental investment in children in competition with each other may be key to understanding both of these unusual human phenomena.