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    Patterns of paternal investment predict cross-cultural variation in jealous response

    Long-lasting, romantic partnerships are a universal feature of human societies, but almost as ubiquitous is the risk of instability when one partner strays. Jealous response to the threat of infidelity is well...

    Brooke A. Scelza, Sean P. Prall, Tami Blumenfield in Nature Human Behaviour (2020)

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    The Evolutionary Demography of Sex Ratios in Rural Bangladesh

    In this chapter, we use evolutionary models of sex ratio variation to examine offspring sex ratios in Matlab, Bangladesh, from the 1960s to 2010, during which time sex ratios have shown a decreasing male bias....

    Mary K. Shenk, Mary C. Towner, Kathrine Starkweather in Applied Evolutionary Anthropology (2014)

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    Does Absence Matter?

    This paper examines the effects of three different types of father absence on the timing of life history events among women in rural Bangladesh. Age at marriage and age at first birth are compared across women...

    Mary K. Shenk, Kathrine Starkweather, Howard C. Kress, Nurul Alam in Human Nature (2013)