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Professor Laura Fortunato: Publications

Laura Fortunato (2012) The evolution of matrilineal kinship organization, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279(1749), p. 4939–4945

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Laura Fortunato (2011) Reconstructing the history of marriage strategies in Indo-European-speaking societies: monogamy and polygyny, Human Biology 83(1), p. 87–105

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Laura Fortunato (2011) Reconstructing the history of residence strategies in Indo-European-speaking societies: neo-, uxori-, and virilocality, Human Biology 83(1), p. 107–128

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Laura Fortunato, Marco Archetti (2010) Evolution of monogamous marriage by maximization of inclusive fitness, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 23(1), p. 149–156

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Laura Fortunato, Fiona Jordan (2010) Your place or mine? A phylogenetic comparative analysis of marital residence in Indo-European and Austronesian societies, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365(1559), p. 3913–3922

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Laura Fortunato, Ruth Mace (2009) Testing functional hypotheses about cross-cultural variation: a maximum-likelihood comparative analysis of Indo-European marriage practices, in Pattern and process in cultural evolution, Stephen Shennan (ed.), p. 235–250, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

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Laura Fortunato (2008) A phylogenetic approach to the history of cultural practices, in Early human kinship: from sex to social reproduction, Nicholas J Allen, Hilary Callan, Robin Dunbar, Wendy James (ed.), p. 189–199, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Laura Fortunato, Clare Holden, Ruth Mace (2006) From bridewealth to dowry? A Bayesian estimation of ancestral states of marriage transfers in Indo-European groups, Human Nature 17(4), p. 355–376

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