I am a human behavioral ecologist with interests in kinship, reproduction, demography, social inequality, and quantitative methods. I work with the Mosuo of Southwest China on issues related to the evolution of kinship in relation to changing means of subsistence. I also work with historical data from the Japanese period in Taiwan to explore relationships between gender, adoption, and mortality. Finally, I explore variation in breastfeeding practices across the globe and their relationship to putative social and economic determinants. I lecture in biological anthropology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and am the Contributing Editor and a member of the Board of the Evolutionary Anthropology Society. I am also a book review editor for the Journal of the Polynesian Society.

Email: sm dot mattison at auckland.ac.nz

Twitter: @siobhanmattison

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