By Scientia Professor Robert Clinton Brooks

Books

Brooks R, 2021, Artificial Intimacy Virtual friends, digital lovers and algorithmic matchmakers, NewSouth Publishing

Brooks RC, 2011, Sex, Genes & Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution has Shaped the Modern World, University of New South Wales Press Ltd., Sydney, http://www.robbrooks.net/

Book Chapters

Blake K; Brooks RC, 2019, 'Income inequality and reproductive competition: Implications for consumption, status-seeking, and women's self-sexualization', in The Social Psychology of Inequality, pp. 173 - 185, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28856-3_11

Brooks RC; Griffith SC, 2010, 'Mate Choice', in Westneat D; Fox C (ed.), Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology, Oxford University Press, USA

Brooks R, 2002, 'Variation in female mate choice within guppy populations: Population divergence, multiple ornaments and the maintenance of polymorphism', in Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, Springer Netherlands, pp. 343 - 358, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0265-3_16

Journal articles

Wilkinson LRB; Try H; Robertson SA; Brooks RC; Garratt M, 2025, 'Prior mating without fertilization increases subsequent litter size in mice', Biology Letters, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0659

Brown RL; Brooks RC, 2025, 'Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites?', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2025.2504070

Boughman JW; Brand JA; Brooks RC; Bonduriansky R; Wong BBM, 2024, 'Sexual selection and speciation in the Anthropocene', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39, pp. 654 - 665, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.005

Garratt M; Try H; Neyt C; Brooks RC, 2024, 'Exposure to female olfactory cues hastens reproductive ageing and increases mortality when mating in male mice', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1848

Prochazka A; Brooks RC, 2024, 'Digital Lovers and Jealousy: Anticipated Emotional Responses to Emotionally and Physically Sophisticated Sexual Technologies', Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2024/1413351

Blake KR; Wu A; McGovern H; Brooks RC, 2023, 'Number of Close Kin but Not Gendered Fitness Interests Shapes Sex Role Attitudes', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 9, pp. 37 - 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00207-6

Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2023, 'Societies should not ignore their incel problem', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, pp. 111 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.11.007

Luberti FR; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2023, 'Evolutionary ecological insights into the suppression of female sexuality', Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100167

Flores-Moreno H; Dalrymple RL; Cornwell WK; Popovic G; Nakagawa S; Atkinson J; Cooke J; Laffan SW; Bonser SP; Schwanz LE; Crean AJ; Eldridge DJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC; Vergés A; Poore AGB; Cohen DR; Clark GF; Sen Gupta A; Reich PB; Cornelissen JHC; Craine JM; Hemmings FA; Kattge J; Niinemets Ü; Peñuelas J; Moles AT, 2023, 'Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1073842

Brooks RC; Blake KR; Fromhage L, 2022, 'Effects of gender inequality and wealth inequality on within-sex mating competition under hypergyny', Evolution and Human Behavior, 43, pp. 501 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.006

Luberti FR; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2022, 'Widespread Promiscuity and Cheap Weddings: Can “Low-Value” Sexual Relationships Make Certain Individuals More Sexually Conservative?', Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, pp. 2791 - 2811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02216-0

Brooks RC; Blake KR, 2022, 'Sex-dependent selection, ageing, and implications for staying alive', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2200053X

Luberti FR; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2022, 'Changes in Positive Affect Due to Popularity in an Experimental Dating Context Influence Some of Men’s, but Not Women’s, Socio-Political Attitudes', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 8, pp. 202 - 237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00188-6

Brooks RC; Russo-Batterham D; Blake KR, 2022, 'Incel Activity on Social Media Linked to Local Mating Ecology', Psychological Science, 33, pp. 249 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09567976211036065

Blake KR; Anjum G; Brooks RC, 2021, 'Family and Gendered Fitness Interests Effects on Attitudes Toward Women’s Veiling, Status-Seeking and Stereotyping of Women in Pakistan', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 7, pp. 382 - 402, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-021-00174-4

Brooks RC; Blake KR, 2021, 'Gendered fitness interests: A method partitioning the effects of family composition on socio-political attitudes and behaviors', Evolution and Human Behavior, 42, pp. 295 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.12.002

Kellie DJ; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2021, 'Prejudice towards sex workers depends on the sexual activity and autonomy of their work, hobbies and daily activities', Collabra Psychology, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/collabra.24386

Garratt M; Try H; Brooks RC, 2021, 'Access to females and early life castration individually extend maximal but not median lifespan in male mice', Geroscience, 43, pp. 1437 - 1446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11357-020-00308-8

Kellie DJ; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2021, 'Behind the makeup: The effects of cosmetics on women's self-objectification, and their objectification by others', European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, pp. 703 - 721, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2767

Whyte S; Brooks RC; Chan HF; Torgler B, 2021, 'Sex differences in sexual attraction for aesthetics, resources and personality across age', PLoS ONE, 16, pp. e0250151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250151

Kerry N; Blake KR; Murray DR; Brooks RC, 2021, 'Male descendant kin promote conservative views on gender issues and conformity to traditional norms', Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.29

Luberti FR; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2020, 'Does the Quality of Mating Competitors Affect Socio-Political Attitudes? An Experimental Test', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, pp. 501 - 531, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-020-00151-3

Brooks RC, 2020, 'The imitation game: A comment on Davies et al.', Behavioral Ecology, 31, pp. 1294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa086

Zajitschek SRK; Zajitschek F; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC; Cornwell W; Falster DS; Lagisz M; Mason J; Senior AM; Noble DWA; Nakagawa S, 2020, 'Sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', eLife, 9, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.63170

Arthur LC; Brooks RC; Blake KR, 2020, 'Female Self-Sexualization Covaries with Mate Value but Not Mate Availability', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, pp. 277 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-020-00133-5

Kellie DJ; Dixson BJW; Brooks RC, 2020, 'Papa Don’t Preach?: Using Lies to Expose the Truth about Who Suppresses Female Sexuality', Human Nature, 31, pp. 222 - 248, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-020-09372-7

Garratt M; Try H; Smiley KO; Grattan DR; Brooks RC, 2020, 'Mating in the absence of fertilization promotes a growth-reproduction versus lifespan trade-off in female mice', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117, pp. 15748 - 15754, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2003159117

Han CS; Brooks RC; Dingemanse NJ, 2020, 'Condition-dependent mutual mate preference and intersexual genetic correlations for mating activity', American Naturalist, 195, pp. 997 - 1008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/708497

Blake KR; Brooks R; Arthur LC; Denson TF, 2020, 'In the context of romantic attraction, beautification can increase assertiveness in women', PLoS ONE, 15, pp. e0229162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229162

Luberti FR; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2020, 'The Effects of the Mating Market, Sex, Age, and Income on Sociopolitical Orientation: Insights from Evolutionary Theory and Sexual Economics Theory', Human Nature, 31, pp. 88 - 111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12110-019-09361-5

Han CS; Brooks RC; Dingemanse NJ, 2020, 'Condition-Dependent Mutual Mate Preference and Intersexual Genetic Correlations for Mating Activity', AMERICAN NATURALIST, 195, pp. 997 - 1008, http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0vt4b8gv7

Zajitschek SRK; Zajitschek F; Bonduriansky R; Brooks RC; Cornwell W; Falster DS; Lagisz M; Mason J; Senior AM; Noble DAW; Nakagawa S, 2020, 'Sex and Power: sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.23.106146

Whyte S; Brooks RC; Torgler B, 2019, 'Sexual economic theory & the human mating market', Applied Economics, 51, pp. 6100 - 6112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2019.1650886

Gale TJ; Garratt M; Brooks RC, 2019, 'Female mice seek refuge from castrated males, but not intact or vasectomized males, mitigating a socially-induced glucocorticoid response', Physiology and Behavior, 211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.112678

Kellie DJ; Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2019, 'What drives female objectification? An investigation of appearance-based interpersonal perceptions and the objectification of women', PLoS ONE, 14, pp. e0221388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221388

Dixson BJW; Rantala MJ; Brooks RC, 2019, 'Cross-Cultural Variation in women’s Preferences for men’s Body Hair', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 5, pp. 131 - 147, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-019-0107-x

Whyte S; Brooks RC; Chan HF; Torgler B, 2019, 'Do certain personality traits provide a mating market competitive advantage? Sex, offspring & the big 5', Personality and Individual Differences, 139, pp. 158 - 169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.11.019

Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2019, 'Status anxiety mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and sexualization', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116, pp. 25029 - 25033, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909806116

Gouda-Vossos A; Brooks RC; Dixson BJW, 2019, 'The interplay between economic status and attractiveness, and the importance of attire in mate choice judgments', Frontiers in Psychology, 10, pp. 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00462

Brooks R; Blake K, 2019, 'Gendered Fitness Interests: A Method Partitioning the Effects of Family Composition on Socio-Political Attitudes and Behaviors', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/847814

Gouda-Vossos A; Nakagawa S; Dixson BJW; Brooks RC, 2018, 'Mate Choice Copying in Humans: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis', Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 4, pp. 364 - 386, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-018-0099-y

Whyte S; Brooks RC; Torgler B, 2018, 'Man, Woman, “Other”: Factors Associated with Nonbinary Gender Identification', Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47, pp. 2397 - 2406, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1307-3

Blake KR; Fourati M; Brooks RC, 2018, 'Who suppresses female sexuality? An examination of support for Islamic veiling in a secular Muslim democracy as a function of sex and offspring sex', Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, pp. 632 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.06.006

Blake KR; Brooks RC, 2018, 'High Mate Value Men Become More Accepting of Intimate Partner Abuse When Primed With Gender Equality', Frontiers in Sociology, 3, pp. 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2018.00028

Gale T; Garratt M; Brooks RC, 2018, 'Perceived threats of infanticide reduce maternal allocation during lactation and lead to elevated oxidative damage in offspring', Functional Ecology, 32, pp. 2158 - 2169, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13146

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