Mark Flinn

Mark V. Flinn is a biomedical anthropologist, specializing in childhood stress, family relationships and health. His research includes a longitudinal 30-year study of child health in a rural community on the Caribbean island of Dominica. This study is the first of its kind to monitor stress hormones in a naturalistic setting.

Flinn is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.


Career

Flinn earned his PhD in anthropology in 1983 at Northwestern University under the supervision of Napoleon Chagnon. He then joined the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan, under the mentorship of Richard D. Alexander, followed by a postdoc in the Museum of Natural History where he was influenced by William D. Hamilton. In 1987, he took up a professorship at the University of Missouri. In 2018, he moved to Baylor University.

In 2012, Flinn was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[1][2][3][4]


References
  1. "Mark Flinn". aaas.org. Retrieved May 14, 2017. and the Association for Psychological Science. Between 2013 and 2015, he was president of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
  2. "Mark Flinn". missouri.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  3. "Mark Flinn". missouri.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  4. "Lab". missouri.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
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