Bobbi S. Low’s Followers (8)

Bobbi S. Low

Genre

Science

edit data

Bobbi S. Low is Professor of Resource Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), and Faculty Associate in Population Studies, the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on behavioral ecology and life history theory: how these were shaped by evolution, and how they in turn constrain optimal management. She links data collection, analysis, and theory; her methodologies include dynamic modeling, optimization, agent-based modeling and game theory.

Low’s research crosses the biological and social sciences, both in topics and journals.. Her biological and ecological research includes studies of toad skin secretions, the ecological tradeoffs of marsupialism, fish schooling, kan Bobbi S. Low is Professor of Resource Ecology in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment (SNRE), and Faculty Associate in Population Studies, the Institute for Social Research, at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on behavioral ecology and life history theory: how these were shaped by evolution, and how they in turn constrain optimal management. She links data collection, analysis, and theory; her methodologies include dynamic modeling, optimization, agent-based modeling and game theory.

Low’s research crosses the biological and social sciences, both in topics and journals.. Her biological and ecological research includes studies of toad skin secretions, the ecological tradeoffs of marsupialism, fish schooling, kangaroo foraging, the biology of sex differences, and the evolution of anisogamy. Other papers focus on anthropological, psychological and social issues, including: sexual attitudes and behavior in Thailand, sex roles in war and politics, more generally cross-cultural perspectives of women’s ecological and demographic constraints, reproductive behavior and the demographic transition in 19th century Sweden, the evolutionary role of body fat and ornamentation, and the role of unpredictability in risk taking.

Most of Low’s research sits at the intersection and cross influences of biology/ecology on the one hand and psychology/anthropology/social sciences on the other. Her interdisciplinary work often centers on ecological and cultural influences on mating and marriage systems, but it also includes a recent (co-authored) paper on the impact of psychological stress on fertility (PNAS, 2006), a book and papers on the evolution of sex differences, work on pathogen stress and marriage systems in traditional societies, and papers and an edited volume connecting natural ecosystems and human cultural/economic systems, with an emphasis on conservation, sustainability and optimal management.

Low is active the world-wide evolutionary ecology community. She is on the editorial boards of Human Behavior and Evolution, Human Nature, and Politics and the Life Sciences. She has just completed a term as President of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society. At UM SNRE she has been the supervisor/mentor of nearly fifty graduate students in the last five years; her students won the prestigious Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2004 and 2006.
...more

Combine Editions
Bobbi S. Low’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 178 ratings · 16 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. 3.85 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework by David M. Estlund, Stanton Braude (Editor), Bobbi S. Low (Editor) 3.49 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women by Maryanne L. Fisher (Editor), Justin R. Garcia (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rosemarie Sokol Chang (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family patterns in nineteenth-century Sweden: Variation in time and space (Report no. 6 from the Demographic Data Base, Umeå University) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to Methods and Models in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology by Stanton Braude (Editor), Bobbi S. Low (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability by Robert Costanza (Editor), Bobbi S. Low (Editor), Elinor Ostrom (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sexo e Comportamento Humano it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior. [Paperback] [2001] (Author) Bobbi S. Low 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior Why Sex Matters (Paperback) - Common 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior by Low, Bobbi S.(January 4, 2015) Paperback by Bobbi S. Low, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Bobbi S. Low…

Quotes by Bobbi S. Low (?)

“In their “deep” objectives — in what they evolved to do — humans are not qualitatively different from other living organisms. Like other living things, they evolved to get and use resources to survive and enhance the spread of their genes.”
― Bobbi S. Low, Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior.

1 likes

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Bobbi to Goodreads.

Bobbi S. Low’s Followers (8)

Bobbi S. Low

Combine EditionsBobbi S. Low’s books

Combine Editions
Bobbi S. Low’s books