What is she best known for?
The fields of study she is best known for:
- Ecology
- Statistics
- Social science
Ruth Mace spends much of her time researching Fertility, Demography, Parental investment, Child mortality and Sociocultural evolution.
Her Fertility research includes themes of Ecology, Foraging, Inclusive fitness and Reproductive success.
The concepts of her Demography study are interwoven with issues in Grandmother hypothesis, Public goods game, Cross-cultural studies and Polygyny.
Her Parental investment research integrates issues from Life history theory, Pastoralism, Herd, Investment and Demographic transition.
The Child mortality study combines topics in areas such as Gerontology, Time allocation, Infant mortality, Subsistence agriculture and Birth rate.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Egalitarianism, Galton's problem, Livestock, Coevolution and Genealogy in addition to Sociocultural evolution.
Her most cited work include:
- Who keeps children alive? A review of the effects of kin on child survival (610 citations)
- Maternal grandmothers improve nutritional status and survival of children in rural Gambia. (293 citations)
- The effects of kin on child mortality in rural Gambia (265 citations)
What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Demography, Fertility, Reproductive success, Parental investment and Ecology.
She interconnects Offspring, Gerontology, Life history theory, Child mortality and Infant mortality in the investigation of issues within Demography.
Her work in Fertility addresses issues such as Demographic economics, which are connected to fields such as Kinship.
Her Reproductive success research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Polygyny and Sex ratio.
Her Parental investment study combines topics in areas such as Kin selection and Investment.
Ruth Mace focuses mostly in the field of Ecology, narrowing it down to matters related to Sociocultural evolution and, in some cases, Media studies, Cultural diversity and Social psychology.
She most often published in these fields:
- Demography (29.73%)
- Fertility (21.62%)
- Reproductive success (12.61%)
What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Kinship (13.51%)
- Reciprocity (5.86%)
- Social psychology (12.61%)
In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:
Her primary scientific interests are in Kinship, Reciprocity, Social psychology, Demography and Demographic economics.
Her Kinship study incorporates themes from Ecology, Inclusive fitness, Human Females, Open data and Social organization.
Her studies in Reciprocity integrate themes in fields like Kin selection, Microeconomics, Foraging and Subsistence agriculture.
In her study, China is strongly linked to Salient, which falls under the umbrella field of Social psychology.
Ruth Mace is studying Mortality rate, which is a component of Demography.
Her Demographic economics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Reproductive success, Polygyny, Popularity, Human evolution and Social capital.
Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:
- Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages. (14 citations)
- Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages. (14 citations)
- A friend in need is a friend indeed: Need-based sharing, rather than cooperative assortment, predicts experimental resource transfers among Agta hunter-gatherers (12 citations)
In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Ecology
- Social science
- Anthropology
Ruth Mace mainly focuses on Reciprocity, Inclusive fitness, Kinship, Sociocultural evolution and Kin selection.
Her Reciprocity research includes elements of Microeconomics, Foraging and Subsistence agriculture.
Her Inclusive fitness research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Life history theory, Immigration, Social organization, Biological dispersal and Matrilocal residence.
The various areas that Ruth Mace examines in her Kinship study include Developmental psychology, Alloparenting and Proxy.
The study of Sociocultural evolution is intertwined with the study of Social psychology in a number of ways.
Her Kin selection research incorporates elements of Social evolution, Sociality, Reciprocal altruism and Demographic economics.
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