Mary C Towner
Biographic Data
| ID | 87540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary C Towner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary C |
| FAMILY NAME | Towner |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0784-1860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reduced Fat Oxidation as a Potential Pathway Linking Early‐Life Adversity to Obesity Risk: Evidence From Vanuatu
The latter finding suggests that adverse environmental conditions during early life may lead to reduced fat oxidation, which has the potential to increase the risk of obesity later in life. This finding might partially explain the so-called double burden of malnutrition (the co-occurrence of undernutrition and obesity) currently affecting many low- and middle-income countries
Dowry Inflation: Perception or Reality
The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major focus of parental investment, marriage decisions are also a source of conflict between parents and daughters in which parents often have more power. The process of market integration may alter parental investmen…
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences
OBJECTIVES: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, in…
Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration
Humans are able to thrive in a multitude of ecological and social environments, including varied environments over an individual lifetime. Migration—leaving one place of residence for another—is a central feature of many people's life histories, and environmental change goes hand‐in‐hand with migration, both in terms of cause and consequence. Climate change has amplified this connection between environment and migration, with the potential to pro…
Migration, integration and reproduction
Consanguineous Marriage, Kinship Ecology, and Market Transition
This paper uses the framework of intensive and extensive kinship systems to organize and understand a large body of research on consanguineous marriage across cultures, particularly studies in demography and development that document decreasing consanguineous marriage with market integration. We argue that while agricultural subsistence is often associated with intensive kinship systems, including kin marriages, increasing engagement in a market …
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Alternative statistical approaches to the use of data as evidence for hypotheses in human behavioral ecology
In their ambitious Evolutionary Anthropology paper, Winterhalder and Smith1 review the history, theory, and methods of human behavioral ecology (HBE). In establishing how HBE differs from traditional approaches within sociocultural anthropology, they and others laud its hypothetical-deductive research method.1-3 Our aim is to critically examine how human behavioral ecologists conduct their research, specifically how they analyze and interpret dat…
Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits
Cultural traits are distributed across human societies in a patterned way. Study of the mechanisms whereby cultural traits persist and change over time is key to understanding human cultural diversity. For more than a century, a central question has engaged anthropologists interested in the study of cultural trait variation: What is the source of cultural variation? More precisely, are cultural traits transmitted primarily from ancestral to desce…
Linking dispersal and marriage in humans
Linking dispersal and resources in humans: Life history data from Oakham, Massachusetts (1750-1850)
Mating systems: Anthropologists and behavioral ecologists combine perspectives
Consanguineous Marriage, Kinship Ecology, and Market Transition
This paper uses the framework of intensive and extensive kinship systems to organize and understand a large body of research on consanguineous marriage across cultures, particularly studies in demography and development that document decreasing consanguineous marriage with market integration. We argue that while agricultural subsistence is often associated with intensive kinship systems, including kin marriages, increasing engagement in a market …
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Linking dispersal and resources in humans: Life history data from Oakham, Massachusetts (1750-1850)
The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major focus of parental investment, marriage decisions are also a source of conflict between parents and daughters in which parents often have more power. The process of market integration may alter parental investmen…
Mating systems: Anthropologists and behavioral ecologists combine perspectives
Linking dispersal and resources in humans: Life history data from Oakham, Massachusetts (1750-1850)
Linking dispersal and marriage in humans
Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits
Cultural traits are distributed across human societies in a patterned way. Study of the mechanisms whereby cultural traits persist and change over time is key to understanding human cultural diversity. For more than a century, a central question has engaged anthropologists interested in the study of cultural trait variation: What is the source of cultural variation? More precisely, are cultural traits transmitted primarily from ancestral to desce…
Alternative statistical approaches to the use of data as evidence for hypotheses in human behavioral ecology
In their ambitious Evolutionary Anthropology paper, Winterhalder and Smith1 review the history, theory, and methods of human behavioral ecology (HBE). In establishing how HBE differs from traditional approaches within sociocultural anthropology, they and others laud its hypothetical-deductive research method.1-3 Our aim is to critically examine how human behavioral ecologists conduct their research, specifically how they analyze and interpret dat…
Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission among Western North American Indian Societies
Consanguineous Marriage, Kinship Ecology, and Market Transition
This paper uses the framework of intensive and extensive kinship systems to organize and understand a large body of research on consanguineous marriage across cultures, particularly studies in demography and development that document decreasing consanguineous marriage with market integration. We argue that while agricultural subsistence is often associated with intensive kinship systems, including kin marriages, increasing engagement in a market …
Migration, integration and reproduction
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences
OBJECTIVES: With our diverse training, theoretical and empirical toolkits, and rich data, evolutionary and biological anthropologists (EBAs) have much to contribute to research and policy decisions about climate change and other pressing social issues. However, we remain largely absent from these critical, ongoing efforts. Here, we draw on the literature and our own experiences to make recommendations for how EBAs can engage broader audiences, in…
Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration
Humans are able to thrive in a multitude of ecological and social environments, including varied environments over an individual lifetime. Migration—leaving one place of residence for another—is a central feature of many people's life histories, and environmental change goes hand‐in‐hand with migration, both in terms of cause and consequence. Climate change has amplified this connection between environment and migration, with the potential to pro…
Dowry Inflation: Perception or Reality
The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh
Success in marriage markets has lasting impacts on women's wellbeing. By arranging marriages, parents exert financial and social powers to influence spouse characteristics and ensure optimal marriages. While arranging marriages is a major focus of parental investment, marriage decisions are also a source of conflict between parents and daughters in which parents often have more power. The process of market integration may alter parental investmen…
Reduced Fat Oxidation as a Potential Pathway Linking Early‐Life Adversity to Obesity Risk: Evidence From Vanuatu
The latter finding suggests that adverse environmental conditions during early life may lead to reduced fat oxidation, which has the potential to increase the risk of obesity later in life. This finding might partially explain the so-called double burden of malnutrition (the co-occurrence of undernutrition and obesity) currently affecting many low- and middle-income countries
Sociology (9 works) · Biology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Population (4 works)