Mary C. Towner

887 total citations
24 papers, 592 citations indexed

About

Mary C. Towner is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Demography and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary C. Towner has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 592 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Gender Studies, 7 papers in Demography and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mary C. Towner's work include Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Mary C. Towner is often cited by papers focused on Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (10 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 papers). Mary C. Towner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Bangladesh. Mary C. Towner's co-authors include Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Mary K. Shenk, Pamela L. Wilson, Sandra L. Vehrencamp, Nurul Alam, Charles L. Nunn, Barney Luttbeg, Howard Kress, Ilona Nenko and Heidi Colleran and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.

In The Last Decade

Mary C. Towner

24 papers receiving 559 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mary C. Towner United States 15 177 152 132 132 95 24 592
Ryan Schacht United States 16 230 1.3× 124 0.8× 312 2.4× 225 1.7× 12 0.1× 30 664
Clare Holden United Kingdom 11 361 2.0× 43 0.3× 197 1.5× 87 0.7× 16 0.2× 13 1.0k
J. Patrick Gray United States 11 139 0.8× 49 0.3× 106 0.8× 55 0.4× 19 0.2× 29 447
Debra S. Judge Australia 13 107 0.6× 119 0.8× 139 1.1× 121 0.9× 51 0.5× 40 621
Alice L. Clarke United States 11 191 1.1× 319 2.1× 245 1.9× 205 1.6× 23 0.2× 24 1.0k
Shane J. Macfarlan United States 14 395 2.2× 52 0.3× 276 2.1× 74 0.6× 16 0.2× 37 705
Renee Pennington United States 13 129 0.7× 49 0.3× 195 1.5× 134 1.0× 10 0.1× 15 864
Percy A. Rohde Germany 11 96 0.5× 172 1.1× 171 1.3× 76 0.6× 40 0.4× 11 686
Fiona M. Jordan United Kingdom 16 337 1.9× 45 0.3× 185 1.4× 42 0.3× 18 0.2× 46 1.2k
Emma Foster United Kingdom 13 169 1.0× 196 1.3× 89 0.7× 73 0.6× 89 0.9× 23 837

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mary C. Towner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary C. Towner

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nenko, Ilona, et al.. (2023). Emotional factors, medical interventions and mode of birth among low-risk primiparous women in Poland. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 11(1). 139–148. 6 indexed citations
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Schaffnit, Susan B., Abigail E. Page, Robert Lynch, et al.. (2022). The impact of market integration on arranged marriages in Matlab, Bangladesh. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 5. e5–e5. 5 indexed citations
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Shenk, Mary K., et al.. (2022). Dowry Inflation: Perception or Reality?. Population Research and Policy Review. 41(4). 1641–1672. 4 indexed citations
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Lukas, Dieter, Mary C. Towner, & Monique Borgerhoff Mulder. (2021). The potential to infer the historical pattern of cultural macroevolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1828). 20200057–20200057. 7 indexed citations
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Jones, James H., Anne C. Pisor, Kristina Douglass, et al.. (2021). How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?. American Journal of Human Biology. 33(4). e23592–e23592. 8 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C., et al.. (2021). Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration. American Journal of Human Biology. 33(4). e23635–e23635. 5 indexed citations
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Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Mary C. Towner, Ryan Baldini, et al.. (2019). Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1780). 20180076–20180076. 10 indexed citations
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Mattison, Siobhán M., et al.. (2018). Evolutionary demography of age at last birth: integrating approaches from human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1743). 20170060–20170060. 15 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C., et al.. (2016). Why do women stop reproducing before menopause? A life-history approach to age at last birth. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1692). 20150147–20150147. 23 indexed citations
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Shenk, Mary K., et al.. (2016). Consanguineous Marriage, Kinship Ecology, and Market Transition. Current Anthropology. 57(S13). S167–S180. 33 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C., et al.. (2012). Cultural Macroevolution on Neighbor Graphs. Human Nature. 23(3). 283–305. 33 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C., et al.. (2009). Long-distance dispersal to the mining frontier in late 19th century Colorado. Behaviour. 146(4-5). 677–700. 5 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C. & Barney Luttbeg. (2007). Alternative statistical approaches to the use of data as evidence for hypotheses in human behavioral ecology. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 16(3). 107–118. 31 indexed citations
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Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Charles L. Nunn, & Mary C. Towner. (2006). Cultural macroevolution and the transmission of traits. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 15(2). 52–64. 91 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C.. (2002). Linking dispersal and marriage in humans. Evolution and Human Behavior. 23(5). 337–357. 14 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C.. (2001). Linking dispersal and resources in humans. Human Nature. 12(4). 321–349. 20 indexed citations
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Wilson, Pamela L., Mary C. Towner, & Sandra L. Vehrencamp. (2000). SURVIVAL AND SONG-TYPE SHARING IN A SEDENTARY SUBSPECIES OF THE SONG SPARROW. Ornithological Applications. 102(2). 355–355. 70 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C.. (1999). A dynamic model of human dispersal in a land-based economy. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 46(2). 82–94. 18 indexed citations
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Towner, Mary C., et al.. (1990). Effect of bacterial pyrogen on three lizard species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Physiology. 96(3). 383–386. 23 indexed citations

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