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Rebecca Sear, FBA is a British anthropologist and academic, who specialises in evolutionary anthropology, demography and human behavioural ecology.[1][2] Since 2024, she has been director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London.[3] She previously taught at the London School of Economics, Durham University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.[4]

Sear undertook a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in anthropology at University College London which she completed in 2001.[4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Evolutionary demography of a rural Gambian population".[5]

In July 2024, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[6]

Selected works

  • Burger, Oskar; Lee, Ronald; Sear, Rebecca, eds. (2024). Human Evolutionary Demography. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1-80064-170-9.

References

  1. ^ "Professor Rebecca Sear FBA". The British Academy. 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  2. ^ "Spotlight on… Rebecca Sear". www.lshtm.ac.uk. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  3. ^ "Dr Rebecca Sear". Brunel University London. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Rebecca Sear" (pdf). International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. August 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  5. ^ Sear, Rebecca Susan (2001). Evolutionary demography of a rural Gambian population (PhD thesis). University College London. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  6. ^ "The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024". thebritishacademy.ac.uk. The British Academy. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.