Hassan, A; (2021) Parental care, allomothering and child health in north-western Tanzania : who cares for children and does it matter? PhD (research paper style) thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04662098

Lawson, David W; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; (2016) The offspring quantity-quality trade-off and human fertility variation. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological sciences, 371 (1692). 20150145-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0145

Lawson, David W; James, Susan; Ngadaya, Esther; Ngowi, Bernard; Mfinanga, Sayoki GM; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; (2016) Reply to Rieger and Wagner: Context matters when studying purportedly harmful cultural practices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (13). E1771-E1772. ISSN 0027-8424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601420113 Full text not available from this repository.

Sear, Rebecca; Lawson, David W; Kaplan, Hillard; Shenk, Mary K; (2016) Understanding variation in human fertility: what can we learn from evolutionary demography? Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological sciences, 371 (1692). 20150144-. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0144

Hedges, Sophie; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; James, Susan; Lawson, David W; (2015) Sending children to school: rural livelihoods and parental investment in education in northern Tanzania. Evolution and human behavior, 37 (2). pp. 142-151. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.10.001

Lawson, David W; James, Susan; Ngadaya, Esther; Ngowi, Bernard; Mfinanga, Sayoki GM; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; (2015) No evidence that polygynous marriage is a harmful cultural practice in northern Tanzania. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (45). pp. 13827-13832. ISSN 0027-8424 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1507151112 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique; Ghiselli, Margherita E; Ngadaya, Esther; Ngowi, Bernard; Mfinanga, Sayoki GM; Hartwig, Kari; James, Susan; (2014) Ethnicity and child health in northern Tanzania: Maasai pastoralists are disadvantaged compared to neighbouring ethnic groups. PloS one, 9 (10). e110447-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110447

Pound, Nicholas; Lawson, David W; Toma, Arshed M; Richmond, Stephen; Zhurov, Alexei I; Penton-Voak, Ian S; (2014) Facial fluctuating asymmetry is not associated with childhood ill-health in a large British cohort study. Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281 (1792). p. 20141639. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1639

Alvergne, Alexandra; Lawson, David W; Clarke, Parry MR; Gurmu, Eshetu; Mace, Ruth; (2013) Fertility, parental investment, and the early adoption of modern contraception in rural Ethiopia. American journal of human biology, 25 (1). pp. 107-115. ISSN 1042-0533 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22348 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Makoli, Arijeta; Goodman, Anna; (2013) Sibling configuration predicts individual and descendant socioeconomic success in a modern post-industrial society. PloS one, 8 (9). e73698-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073698

Goodman, Anna; Koupil, Ilona; Lawson, David W; (2012) Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society. Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 279 (1746). pp. 4342-4351. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1415

Lawson, David W; Alvergne, Alexandra; Gibson, Mhairi A; (2012) The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival. Proceedings Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 279 (1748). pp. 4755-4764. ISSN 0962-8452 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1635

Gibson, Mhairi A; Lawson, David W; (2011) “Modernization” increases parental investment and sibling resource competition: evidence from a rural development initiative in Ethiopia. Evolution and human behavior, 32 (2). pp. 97-105. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.10.002 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Mace, Ruth; (2011) Parental investment and the optimization of human family size. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological sciences, 366 (1563). pp. 333-343. ISSN 0962-8436 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0297 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Mace, Ruth; (2010) Optimizing Modern Family Size: Trade-offs between Fertility and the Economic Costs of Reproduction. Human nature (Hawthorne, NY), 21 (1). pp. 39-61. ISSN 1045-6767 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-010-9080-6

Lawson, David W; Mace, Ruth; (2010) Siblings and childhood mental health: evidence for a later-born advantage. Social science & medicine (1982), 70 (12). pp. 2061-2069. ISSN 0277-9536 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.03.009 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Mace, Ruth; (2009) Trade-offs in modern parenting: a longitudinal study of sibling competition for parental care. Evolution and human behavior, 30 (3). pp. 170-183. ISSN 1090-5138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2008.12.001 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, DW; Jordan, FM; Magid, K; (2008) On sex and suicide bombing: an evaluation of Kanazawa's 'Evolutionary Psychological Imagination'. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 6. pp. 73-84. ISSN 1589-5254 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/5173 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, David W; Mace, Ruth; (2008) Sibling configuration and childhood growth in contemporary British families. International journal of epidemiology, 37 (6). pp. 1408-1421. ISSN 0300-5771 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyn116 Full text not available from this repository.

Lawson, DW; (2007) Frustrated felines and excited ungulates: a review of 'Homosexual Behaviour in Animals - An Evolutionary Perspective'. Journal of cultural and evolutionary psychology, 5. pp. 257-260. ISSN 1589-5254 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/5174 Full text not available from this repository.

Scott, Beth E; Lawson, David W; Curtis, Val; (2007) Hard to handle: understanding mothers' handwashing behaviour in Ghana. Health policy and planning, 22 (4). pp. 216-224. ISSN 0268-1080 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czm014 Full text not available from this repository.

Sear, Rebecca; Lawson, David W; Dickins, Thomas E; (2007) Synthesis in the human evolutionary behavioural sciences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5 (1). pp. 3-28. ISSN 1789-2082 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/jep.2007.1019