Marcus Young Owl

MA, Ph.D, UCLA
Post-Doc, University of Illinois

Department of Anthropology:

ANTH 435	Human Evolution
ANTH 363	Natural History of Primates
ANTH 437	Primate Ecology
ANTH 434	Primate Evolution
ANTH 402	Evolutionary Theory

Department of Biological Sciences:
Human Anatomy, Human Biology

Primate anatomy and comparative biology, evolutionary theory, anatomical lexicon, history of physical anthropology and anatomy, science education.

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.

Awards

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 for The Cambridge
Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution.

Emmy Award 2007 (for contributions to Coastline Course, The Evolving Human)

Platinum EVA 2009 (for contributions to Coastline Course, The Cardio-Vascular System)

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.