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Bobbi S. Low
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 99
Citations - 5645
Bobbi S. Low is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fertility. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 98 publications receiving 5330 citations. Previous affiliations of Bobbi S. Low include University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science & Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment.
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Intergenerational wealth transmission and the dynamics of inequality in small-scale societies.
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Samuel Bowles,Tom Hertz,Adrian Bell,Jan Beise,Greg Clark,Ila Fazzio,Michael Gurven,Kim Hill,Paul L. Hooper,William Irons,Hillard Kaplan,Donna L. Leonetti,Bobbi S. Low,Frank W. Marlowe,Richard McElreath,Suresh Naidu,David A. Nolin,Patrizio Piraino,Robert J. Quinlan,Eric Schniter,Rebecca Sear,Mary K. Shenk,Eric Alden Smith,Christopher von Rueden,Polly Wiessner +25 more
TL;DR: It is shown that intergenerational transmission of wealth and wealth inequality are substantial among pastoral and small-scale agricultural societies but are limited among horticultural and foraging peoples (equivalent to the most egalitarian of modern industrial populations).
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Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans
Robert Costanza,Francisco H. Andrade,Paula Antunes,Marjan van den Belt,Dee Boersma,Donald F. Boesch,Fernando Catarino,Susan Hanna,Karin E. Limburg,Bobbi S. Low,Michael Molitor,João G. Pereira,Steve Rayner,Rui Santos,James Wilson,Michael A. Young +15 more
TL;DR: Six core principles are proposed to guide governance and use of ocean resources and to promote sustainability and examples of governance structures that embody these principles are given.
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Cortisol levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans
Pablo A. Nepomnaschy,Kathleen B. Welch,Daniel S. McConnell,Bobbi S. Low,Beverly I. Strassmann,Barry G. England +5 more
TL;DR: Examination of the association between miscarriage and levels of maternal urinary cortisol during the first 3 weeks after conception concluded that pregnancies characterized by increased maternal cortisol during this period were more likely to result in spontaneous abortion.
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Environmental Uncertainty and the Parental Strategies of Marsupials and Placentals
TL;DR: A comparison of marsupial and placental parental strategies as a test of predictions about the pattern of expenditure of parental effort suggests that marsupials have long been under selection imposed by frequent loss of offspring or conditions in which termination of offspring was frequently favored.
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Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior
TL;DR: Sexual differences among humans are illustrated by showing that in places as diverse as the parishes of nineteenth-century Sweden, the villages of seventeenth-century China, and the forests of twentieth-century Brazil, men have tended to seek power and resources to attract mates, while women have sought a secure environment for raising children.