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Bobbi S. Low is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research encompasses several interconnected fields and subfields, including social psychology, management, monitoring, policy and law, sociology and political science, ecology, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics in primate behavior and ecology, rangeland management and livestock ecology, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, wildlife ecology and conservation, animal behavior and reproduction, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, as well as land rights and reforms.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Bobbi S. Low include:

  • Pathways to social inequality (2021) published in Evolutionary Human Sciences
  • Drivers of global variation in land ownership (2020) published in Ecography
  • Aggression rates increase around seasonally exploited resources in a primarily grass-eating primate (2023) published in Behavioral Ecology
  • Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies (2020) published by UNC Libraries
  • The biogeography and evolution of land ownership (2023) published in Journal of Biogeography

Bobbi S. Low has collaborated frequently with several co-authors. These include Carol R. Ember, Kathryn R. Kirby, Carlos A. Botero, Michael C. Gavin, and Claire Bowern. Each of these colleagues has worked with Low on multiple occasions, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The scientist's publications appear across a range of venues. Notably, there have been multiple contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). Other publication outlets include Ecography, Evolutionary Human Sciences, Behavioral Ecology, and Journal of Biogeography.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary dynamics of organizations

    Joel A.C. Baum;Jitendra Vir Singh

  • Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.

    Monique Borgerhoff Mulder;Samuel Bowles;Tom Hertz;Adrian Bell

  • Why Sex Matters

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans

    Robert Costanza;Francisco Andrade;Paula Antunes;Marjan van den Belt

  • Cortisol levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans

    Pablo A. Nepomnaschy;Kathleen B. Welch;Daniel S. McConnell;Bobbi S. Low

  • Environmental Uncertainty and the Parental Strategies of Marsupials and Placentals

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior

    Bobbi S. Low

  • D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity

    Kathryn R. Kirby;Russell D. Gray;Simon J. Greenhill;Fiona M. Jordan

  • Marriage Systems and Pathogen Stress in Human Societies

    Bobbi S. Low

  • The role of future unpredictability in human risk-taking.

    Elizabeth M. Hill;Elizabeth M. Hill;Lisa Thomson Ross;Bobbi S. Low

  • Institutions, ecosystems, and sustainability

    Robert Costanza;Bobbi S. Low;Elinor Ostrom;James Wilson

  • Cross-cultural patterns in the training of children: an evolutionary perspective.

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Influences on Women's Reproductive Lives: Unexpected Ecological Underpinnings

    Bobbi S. Low;Ashley Hazel;Nicholas Parker;Kathleen B. Welch

  • Ecological economics and sustainable governance of the oceans

    Robert Costanza;Francisco Andrade;Paula Antunes;Marjan van den Belt

  • Reproductive life in nineteenth century Sweden: An evolutionary perspective on demographic phenomena

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Exurbia from the bottom-up: Confronting empirical challenges to characterizing a complex system

    Daniel G. Brown;Derek T. Robinson;Li An;Joan I. Nassauer

  • Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Redundancy and diversity: do they influence optimal management?

    Bobbi Low;Elinor Ostrom;Carl Simon;James Wilson

  • Sexual selection and human ornamentation

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Scale misperceptions and the spatial dynamics of a social–ecological system

    James Wilson;Bobbi Low;Robert Costanza;Elinor Ostrom

  • Occupational Status, Landownership, and Reproductive Behavior in 19th‐century Sweden: Tuna Parish

    Bobbi S. Low

  • Ache life history: The ecology and demography of a foraging people: By Kim Hill and A. Magdalena Hurtado, New York: Aldine DeGruyter

    Bobbi S. Low

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol R. Ember
Carol R. Ember Yale University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University
Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza University College London
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder University of California, Davis
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington
Elizabeth M. Hill
Elizabeth M. Hill University of Detroit Mercy
Frank W. Marlowe
Frank W. Marlowe University of Cambridge
Christopher von Rueden
Christopher von Rueden University of Richmond
Betsy Foxman
Betsy Foxman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington

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