Ursula Cowgill
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Ursula M. Cowgill is a biologist and anthropologist who worked for Yale University , Dow Chemical Company and the University of Colorado during the second half of the 20th century. Her work includes studies of prehistoric agriculture in Mexico, seasons of birth in human beings, the relationship between cultural gender bias and infant mortality, and the possible role of selenium in reducing mortality from AIDS. She also kept a colony of pottos for many years and published a series of observations on their behaviour.
Few biographical details are available, but Cowgill's first published work appeared in the late 1950s, and she was still living in Colorado as of 2003. During the 1950s and '60s Cowgill worked closely with George Evelyn Hutchinson, who is known as 'the father of modern limnology.' [1] (http://lakes.chebucto.org/PEOPLE/hutchins.html)
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List of works
- 'An apparent lunar periodicity in the sexual cycle of certain prosimians' [2] (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/48/2/238) (with Alison Bishop, R.J. Andrew and G.E. Hutchinson). Article published in Zoology journal, December 1961.
- Bajo de Santa Fe (with G.E. Hutchinson). Book, 1963.
- 'Sex ratio in childhood and the depopulation of the Peten, Guatemala' (with G.E. Hutchinson). Journal article, February 1963.
- The history of Laguna de Petenxil, a small lake in Northern Guatemala. Book, 1966.
- 'Heat transfer solely by molecular conduction in the metalimnion' [3] (http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/57/2/198). Article published in Geophysics journal, December 1966.
- 'A myeloliposarcoma in a female Perodicticus potto: mineralogical and elemental chemical analysis' [4] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=406401&query_hl=1). Journal article, 1977.
- 'Elemental analysis of a tumor from a nocturnal prosimian with special emphasis on bromine' [5] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=402025&query_hl=1). Journal article, January 1977.
- 'Normal blood values of an adult male Perodicticus potto with comparative data from other primates' [6] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=7419137&query_hl=1) (with L.B. Zeman). Journal article, 1980.
- 'The tellurium content of vegetation' [7] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=2484368&query_hl=1). Journal article, September 1988.
- Aquatic toxicology and hazard assessment, 12th volume (with Llewellyn R. Williams). Book, 1989.
- 'The reproducibility of the three brood Ceriodaphnia test using the reference toxicant sodium lauryl sulfate' [8] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=2386407&query_hl=1) (with D.P. Milazzo and B.D. Landenberger). Journal article, July 1990.
- 'The response of the three brood Ceriodaphnia test to fifteen formulations and pure compounds in common use' [9] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=1898115&query_hl=1). Journal article, July 1991.
- 'Variation in the nitrotoxin concentration of 13 species of Astragalus (Fabaceae) over a 6-year period' [10] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9438032&query_hl=1) (with D.P. Milazzo). Journal article, November 1991.
- 'The distribution of selenium and mortality owing to acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the continental United States' [11] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9152511&query_hl=1). Journal article, January 1997.
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