Ruth Mace
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Ruth Mace FBA |
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| Nationality | British |
| Title | Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology |
| Children | Two |
| Academic background | |
| Education |
South Hampstead High School Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Thesis title | "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.
Mace was born on 9 October 1961 in London, England to David Mace and Angela Mace. She was educated at South Hampstead High School, an all-girls independent school in South Hampstead, London, and at Westminster School, an independent school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey that has a mixed-sex sixth form. She studied zoology at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1987. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The dawn chorus: Behavioural organisation in the great tit (Parus major)".
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