Ruth Mace聽is an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist who is Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London (UCL), a post she has held since 2004. She completed her DPhil in Zoology at the University of Oxford and went on to build an academic career focusing on the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history, and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution.听
At UCL, Professor Mace leads the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group, where her research explores human reproductive scheduling, kinship and family systems, cooperation and competition, and the cultural transmission of social norms across diverse populations in Africa, China and the UK. She is also Founding Editor-in-Chief of Evolutionary Human Sciences聽and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008.
