Marcus Young Owl
Dr. Marcus Young Owl is a professor and former chair of Anthropology (1995-2001) and Human Development (2006-2007). He has worked on the anatomy of mammalian digestive systems and the nutritional physiology of microtine rodents. He is currently interested in the accessibility of potential college students to science education via new technologies. In 2006, he was awarded the Choice Outstanding Academic Title for The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution. He has also been awarded the 2007 Emmy Award (for contributions to Coastline Course, The Evolving Human) and the 2009 Platinum EVA award (for contributions to Coastline Course, The Cardio-Vascular System).
Primate anatomy and comparative biology, evolutionary theory, anatomical lexicon, history of physical anthropology and anatomy, science education.
ANTH 363: Natural History of Primates
ANTH 402: Evolutionary Theory
ANTH 434: Primate Evolution
ANTH 435: Human Evolution
ANTH 437: Primate Ecology
Co-author, The Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution (2005)
Contributor to Grizimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia (2003), Three chapters: Structure and function (of mammals), Adaptations to flight, and Old World fruit bats II.
With G. O. Batzli (1998) The integrated processing response of voles to changes in fiber content in their diets. Functional Ecology.
