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Student Forum on Educational Inequality
Bobbi Low
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment.
Ph.D., University of Texas-Austin
Dr Low's research focuses on evolutionary biology and its applications to fertility behavior in human and non-human populations. She is currently working on applications of evolutionary psychology to the study of sexual attitudes and behavior in Thailand.
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Books
Low, Bobbi. 2015. Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior, Revised Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Braude, Stan, and Bobbi Low. 2010. An Introduction to Methods & Models in Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Abstract. Public Access.
Journal Articles
Jarvey, Julie C., Bobbi Low, David J. Pappano, Thore J. Bergman, and Jacinta C. Beehner. Forthcoming. "Graminivory and Fallback Foods: Annual Diet Profile of Geladas (
Engel, Daniel D., Mary Anne Evans, Bobbi Low, and Jeff Schaeffer. 2017. "Understanding ecosystem services adoption by natural resource managers and research ecologists." Journal of Great Lakes Research, 43(3): 169-179. DOI. Abstract.
Kirby, Kathryn R., Bobbi Low, Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, Fiona M. Jordan, Stephanie Gomes-Ng, Hans-Jörg Bibiko, Damián E. Blasi, et al. 2016. "D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity." PLOS ONE, 11(7): e0158391. DOI. Abstract.
Hazel, Ashley, Betsy Foxman, and Bobbi Low. 2015. "Herpes simplex virus type 2 among mobile pastoralists in northwestern Namibia." Annals of Human Biology, 42(6): 543-551. DOI. Abstract.
Low, Bobbi. 2015. "The Behavioral Ecology of Resource Consumption: Why Being Green is So Hard." Human Ethology Bulletin, 29(2): 3-26. Abstract.