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]