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Mark Nathan Cohen (born 24 May 1943) is an American anthropologist and a professor in the State University of New York. He has an A.B. degree from
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(1965) and a Ph.D. degree in anthropology (
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, 1971). His areas of research and teaching include human evolution and demographic history, cultural evolution, biology, medical care and forensic anthropology. He has written several books in the field of population growth and life expectancy. He has written and spoken out repeatedly about inequality and race in America. He is both university distinguished professor emeritus and distinguished teaching professor emeritus of the State University of New York


Bibliography

Among other books, he has authored: * ''Health and the Rise of Civilization'' (
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, 1989) * ''Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture'' (Academic Press 1984) * ''Culture of Intolerance'' (Yale University Press 1998) * ''Ancient Health'' (University Press of Florida 2007) * ''Darwin and the Bible'' (Pearson Educacion and Allyn & Bacon 2008) * ''The Food Crisis in Prehistory'' (Yale University Press 1977) * ''Biosocial Mechanisms of Population Regulation'' (Yale University Press 1980)


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1943 births American anthropologists Harvard College alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni State University of New York faculty Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{US-anthropologist-stub