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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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