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Evolutionary Demography of Religion

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Evolutionary Demography of Religion @evodemreligion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New preprint from the team, using qualitative data from Bangladesh, Malawi, Tanzania and the Gambia, to explore what fathers think are their roles in raising children: What is a father’s role? Men’s perspectives on their contributions to raising children in four countries osf.io/preprints/so...
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Evolutionary Demography of Religion @evodemreligion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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Grandmothers, siblings and the quantity-quality tradeoff in human fertility: How allocare shapes fertility in the context of high social competition
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Evolutionary Demography of Religion @evodemreligion.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New paper from the team, led by Radim Chvaja: The role of parental religiosity in shaping paternal investment: evidence from Bangladesh and India doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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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...
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Evolutionary Demography of Religion @evodemreligion.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We are 'The Evolutionary Dynamics of Religion, Family Size and Child Success' project, an international team investigating how religion impacts fertility and child wellbeing. Check out our website for more info, and follow us for updates on our activities 💙 evolutionarydemographyofreligion.org
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The evolutionary demography of religion project is on bluesky! Give it a follow for content about religion, cooperation and prosociality, allomothering, and maternal and child outcomes 👇 bsky.app/profile/evod...
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Laure Spake @lspake.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Check out this episode of SoS! @johnhshaver.bsky.social speaks about his research and one of the papers from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion project: m.soundcloud.com/humanbiology...
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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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