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American anthropologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melvin Joel Konner (born August 30, 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.[1]
Melvin Konner | |
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Born | August 30, 1946 |
Alma mater | Brooklyn College (BA) Harvard University (PhD, MD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Anthropology, behavioral biology |
Institutions | Harvard University Emory University |
Thesis | Infants of a foraging people (1973) |
Website | www |
Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Konner has stated that he lost his faith at age 17.[2] He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973 and a M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1985.[3][4]
From 1985[5] on, he contributed substantially to developing the concept of a Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with Stanley Boyd Eaton,[6][7] and later also with his wife Marjorie Shostak[8] and with Loren Cordain.[9]
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