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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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    Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs

    What are the driving forces of cultural macroevolution, the evolution of cultural traits that characterize societies or populations? This question has engaged anthropologists for more than a century, with litt...

    Mary C. Towner, Mark N. Grote, Jay Venti, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder in Human Nature (2012)

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    Linking dispersal and resources in humans

    Competition for resources is one of the main evolutionary explanations for dispersal from the natal area. For humans this explanation has received little attention, despite the key role dispersal is thought to...

    Mary C. Towner in Human Nature (2001)