M V Flinn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M V Flinn |
| GIVEN NAMES | M V |
| FAMILY NAME | Flinn |
| SIGNATURE | FLINN M V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8732-3085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Social network accuracy among children and adolescents in a rural Dominican community
Traditional Postpartum Care Among Women of Korean Descent in the United States
In memoriam: Napoleon A. Chagnon
Anthropometric heritability and child growth in a Caribbean village: A quantitative genetic analysis of longitudinal height, weight, and body mass index in Bwa Mawego, Dominica
Objectives Body size and composition vary widely among individuals and populations, and long‐term research in diverse contexts informs our understanding of genetic, cultural, and environmental impacts on this variation. We analyze longitudinal measures of height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) from a Caribbean village, estimating the extent to which these anthropometrics are shaped by genetic variance in a small‐scale population of mixed ances…
Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies
Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human bands similar in structure to female-dispersal systems in other African apes. However, considerable flexibility in hunter-gatherer cultures has led to their characterization as primarily multilocal. Horticulturalists are associated with larger, more sedentary social groups with more political i…
Evolution of stress response to social threat
This article reviews the idea that humans evolved large brains and an extended childhood as adaptations that enable the development of social skills for coping with an increasingly complex and dynamic social and cultural environment. It then explores relations between physiological stress response and the ontogeny of social competencies. Two complementary theoretical models of hormonal stress response are considered: maladaptation to the novelty …
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Hormonal Mechanisms for Regulation of Aggression in Human Coalitions
Evolutionary History of Hunter-Gatherer Marriage Practices
BACKGROUND: The universality of marriage in human societies around the world suggests a deep evolutionary history of institutionalized pair-bonding that stems back at least to early modern humans. However, marriage practices vary considerably from culture to culture, ranging from strict prescriptions and arranged marriages in some societies to mostly unregulated courtship in others, presence to absence of brideservice and brideprice, and polyandr…
Parenting Styles and Gender-Linked Drinking Behaviors in Dominica: Parenting and Drinking in Dominica
We explored links among adult alcohol consumption, personality, and retrospective childhood relationships with parents using psychometric instruments adapted for use among Dominicans (n=58; 25 men and 33 women). Compared to women, men consumed more alcohol and cigarettes, reported lower behavioral inhibition, and lower maternal “caringness” (all p<.05). Results suggest that, with respect to drinking, parenting styles predispose opposite developme…
Evolution Is Not Egalitarian
Are cortisol profiles a stable trait during child development
Exposure to stressful experiences can increase vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. A potential neuroendocrine mechanism mediating the link between stress and health is the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) system, with a key role attributed to the glucocorticoid hormone cortisol. Retrospective and cross sectional clinical studies of humans and experimental studies with nonhuman primates and rodents suggest that traumatic experiences duri…
Evolutionary endocrinology: Integrating proximate mechanisms, ontogeny, and evolved function
Maternal Correlates of Children’s Stress Functioning Following a Major Natural Disaster
Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations by Lorena Madrigal
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Parental investment and age at weaning in a Caribbean village
Intergenerational Transmission of Conjugal Stability in a Caribbean Community
Some evolutionary models of human behavior posit that father-absence during early childhood influences subsequent adult reproductive strategies. We compare evidence for intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in Western industrial populations with multigeneration patterns of conjugal stability in a rural Caribbean community. Genealogies (N=8O3) and behavioral data for a Caribbean community suggest that father-absence during early chi…
Hormonal response to competition among male coalitions
Evolution of Human Parental Behavior and the Human Family
Objective. To develop an evolutionary model that integrates human parenting and family formation with ideas about the evolved functions of distinctive human characteristics, such as concealed ovulation and sophisticated sociocognitive competencies. Design. Theoretical and empirical research across scientific disciplines is reviewed. The emphasis is on ecological and social conditions that covary, across species, with parenting, family formation, …
Growth and Fluctuating Asymmetry of Stepchildren
Culture and the evolution of social learning
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations: A Critique of Recent Studies [and Comments and Reply]
Childhood Stress and Family Environment
Evolution of Human Parental Behavior and the Human Family
Objective. To develop an evolutionary model that integrates human parenting and family formation with ideas about the evolved functions of distinctive human characteristics, such as concealed ovulation and sophisticated sociocognitive competencies. Design. Theoretical and empirical research across scientific disciplines is reviewed. The emphasis is on ecological and social conditions that covary, across species, with parenting, family formation, …
Living with Kin in Lowland Horticultural Societies
Postmarital residence patterns in traditional human societies figure prominently in models of hominid social evolution with arguments for patrilocal human bands similar in structure to female-dispersal systems in other African apes. However, considerable flexibility in hunter-gatherer cultures has led to their characterization as primarily multilocal. Horticulturalists are associated with larger, more sedentary social groups with more political i…
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Hormonal Mechanisms for Regulation of Aggression in Human Coalitions
Intergenerational Transmission of Conjugal Stability in a Caribbean Community
Some evolutionary models of human behavior posit that father-absence during early childhood influences subsequent adult reproductive strategies. We compare evidence for intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in Western industrial populations with multigeneration patterns of conjugal stability in a rural Caribbean community. Genealogies (N=8O3) and behavioral data for a Caribbean community suggest that father-absence during early chi…
Parenting Styles and Gender-Linked Drinking Behaviors in Dominica: Parenting and Drinking in Dominica
We explored links among adult alcohol consumption, personality, and retrospective childhood relationships with parents using psychometric instruments adapted for use among Dominicans (n=58; 25 men and 33 women). Compared to women, men consumed more alcohol and cigarettes, reported lower behavioral inhibition, and lower maternal “caringness” (all p<.05). Results suggest that, with respect to drinking, parenting styles predispose opposite developme…
Hormones in the Wild: Monitoring the Endocrinology of Family Relationships
SYNOPSIS For the past 23 years we have conducted a field study of child stress and family environment in Bwa Mawego, Dominica. Our primary objectives were to document hormonal responses of children to everyday interactions with their parents and other care providers, concomitant with longitudinal assessment of developmental and health outcomes. Here we provide a brief summary of our research design and highlight a few results from this collaborat…
Evolution Is Not Egalitarian
Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations by Lorena Madrigal
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Culture theory: The developing synthesis from biology
Sociobiology Examined.Ashley Montagu
Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives
Correlates of reproductive success in a Caribbean village
Evolution Through Group Selection . V. C. Wynne‐Edwards
Explaining Biased Sex Ratios in Human Populations: A Critique of Recent Studies [and Comments and Reply]
Families in Context: A World History of Population
Evolution and Culture Turf Wars: History, Mind, and/or Ecology? Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity . William H. Durham The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Cul…
Childhood Stress and Family Environment
Male-female differences in effects of parental absence on glucocorticoid stress response
Culture and the evolution of social learning
Social economics of childhood glucocorticoid stress response and health
This study examines socioeconomic conditions, psychosocial stress, and health among 264 infants, children, adolescents, and young adults aged 2 months to 18 years residing in a rural Caribbean village. Fieldwork was conducted over a 9 year period (1988–1996). Research methods and techniques include salivary cortisol radioimmunoassay (N = 22,438), systematic behavioral observations, psychological questionnaires, health evaluations, medical records…
Social economics of childhood glucocorticoid stress response and health
This study examines socioeconomic conditions, psychosocial stress, and health among 264 infants, children, adolescents, and young adults aged 2 months to 18 years residing in a rural Caribbean village. Fieldwork was conducted over a 9 year period (1988-1996). Research methods and techniques include salivary cortisol radioimmunoassay (N = 22,438), systematic behavioral observations, psychological questionnaires, health evaluations, medical records…
Growth and Fluctuating Asymmetry of Stepchildren
Evolution of Human Parental Behavior and the Human Family
Objective. To develop an evolutionary model that integrates human parenting and family formation with ideas about the evolved functions of distinctive human characteristics, such as concealed ovulation and sophisticated sociocognitive competencies. Design. Theoretical and empirical research across scientific disciplines is reviewed. The emphasis is on ecological and social conditions that covary, across species, with parenting, family formation, …
Hormonal response to competition among male coalitions
Parental investment and age at weaning in a Caribbean village
Intergenerational Transmission of Conjugal Stability in a Caribbean Community
Some evolutionary models of human behavior posit that father-absence during early childhood influences subsequent adult reproductive strategies. We compare evidence for intergenerational transmission of conjugal stability in Western industrial populations with multigeneration patterns of conjugal stability in a rural Caribbean community. Genealogies (N=8O3) and behavioral data for a Caribbean community suggest that father-absence during early chi…
Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races
Kinship, sex, and fitness in a Caribbean community
Local Resource Enhancement and Sex-biased Breastfeeding in a Caribbean Community
Parents often treat sons and daughters differently. Boys are favored in some societies (Messer 1997), but in others girls receive preferential treatment including better medical care and more frequent breastfeeding (Cronk 2000). Cross-culturally, breastfeeding is a major component of early parental care that directly affects child health. Here we examine female-biased breastfeeding in Bwa Mawego, a horticultural community in the Commonwealth of D…
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child
Human Biology of Afro-Caribbean Populations by Lorena Madrigal
Are cortisol profiles a stable trait during child development
Exposure to stressful experiences can increase vulnerability to adverse health outcomes. A potential neuroendocrine mechanism mediating the link between stress and health is the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal (HPA) system, with a key role attributed to the glucocorticoid hormone cortisol. Retrospective and cross sectional clinical studies of humans and experimental studies with nonhuman primates and rodents suggest that traumatic experiences duri…
Evolutionary endocrinology: Integrating proximate mechanisms, ontogeny, and evolved function
Sociology (22 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Biology (15 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (13 works) · Demography (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · History (9 works)