Ruth Mace | |
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| Born | 9 October 1961 London, England |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Title | Professor of evolutionary anthropology |
| Spouse | Mark Pagel |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | South Hampstead High School Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Thesis | The dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major) (1987) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Evolutionary anthropology Phylogenetic approaches |
| Institutions | Imperial 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]