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Melvin Joel Konner (born 1946) is an American anthropologist who is the
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at
Emory University. He studied at
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
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CUNY
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(1966), where he met
Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He also has a PhD from Harvard University (1973) and a MD from Harvard Medical School (1985).
From 1985 on, he contributed substantially to developing the concept of a
Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with
Stanley Boyd Eaton
S. Boyd Eaton is a radiologist and one of the originators of the concept of Paleolithic nutrition. In 1985, he and Melvin Konner published a paper, ''Paleolithic Nutrition'', in ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' which attracted some attenti ...
, and later also with his wife
Marjorie Shostak and with
Loren Cordain.
Raised in an
Orthodox Jewish family, Konner has stated that he lost his faith at age 17.
Selected bibliography
*Konner, Melvin J. (2019) ''Believers: Faith in Human Nature''.
W. W. Norton & Company.
*Konner, Melvin J. (2015) ''Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy''.
W. W. Norton & Company.
*Konner, Melvin J. (2010) ''The Evolution of Childhood''. Cambridge, MA : The Belknap Press of
Harvard University Press.
*Konner, Melvin J. (2009) ''The Jewish Body''.
Knopf.
*Konner, Melvin J. (2003) ''Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews''. New York : Viking Compass.
*Konner, Melvin J. (2002) ''The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, 2nd ed''. (original 1982) New York:
Times Books.
*Konner, Melvin J. (1993) ''Medicine at the Crossroads: The Crisis in Healthcare''.
Pantheon Books
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*Konner, Melvin J. (1990) ''Why the Reckless Survive . . . and Other Secrets of Human Nature''. New York: Viking.
*Konner, Melvin J. (1987) ''Becoming a Doctor: A Journey of Initiation in Medical School''. New York: Viking.
See also
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Paleolithic diet
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Hunter-gatherer
A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...
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Stanley Boyd Eaton
S. Boyd Eaton is a radiologist and one of the originators of the concept of Paleolithic nutrition. In 1985, he and Melvin Konner published a paper, ''Paleolithic Nutrition'', in ''The New England Journal of Medicine'' which attracted some attenti ...
, researcher
*
Loren Cordain, researcher
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Staffan Lindeberg
Staffan Lindeberg (1950–2016) was an associate professor of family medicine at the Department of Medicine, University of Lund, Sweden. He was a practicing GP at St Lars Primary Health Care Center, Lund, Sweden. Lindeberg researched the paleol ...
, researcher
References
External links
Melvin Konner's blog on anthropology and human natureMelvin Konner's blog on Jewish subjects
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1946 births
American anthropologists
American psychiatrists
Jewish American social scientists
Emory University faculty
Harvard Medical School alumni
Brooklyn College alumni
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Paleolithic diet advocates
21st-century American Jews