Ruth Mace

Ruth Mace
Born (1961-10-09) 9 October 1961 (age 63)
London, England
OccupationAnthropologist
TitleProfessor of evolutionary anthropology
SpouseMark Pagel
Children2
Academic background
EducationSouth Hampstead High School
Westminster School
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
ThesisThe dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major) (1987)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-disciplineEvolutionary anthropology
Phylogenetic approaches
InstitutionsImperial College London
University of East Anglia
University College London

Ruth Mace FBA (born 9 October 1961) is a British anthropologist, biologist, and academic. She specialises in the evolutionary ecology of human demography and life history, and phylogenetic approaches to culture and language evolution. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at University College London.[1][2]

  1. ^ "MACE, Prof. Ruth". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Prof Ruth Mace". AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity. University College London. Retrieved 18 January 2017.