Evolutionary Demography of Religion

Title slide of Mary's talk: Grandmothers, siblings and the quantity-quality tradeoff in human fertility: How allocare shapes fertility in the context of high social competition

Mary Shenk presented at the Evolutionary Demography Society conference in Oxford today, showing intriguing (and opposite) associations between women's fertility and allocare from either grandparents or children

The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Among humans, paternal investment has been shown to enhance both fertility and offspring survival. While psychological and ecological influences on human paternal investment are relatively well docume...

New paper from the team, led by Radim Chvaja:

The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India

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SoS 224: Dr. John Shaver navigates religiosity, fertility, and family support Play SoS 224: Dr. John Shaver navigates religiosity, fertility, and family support by Human Biology Association on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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