Melvin Konner

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.[1] He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY (1966), where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children.[2]

Melvin Konner
Born (1946-08-30) August 30, 1946
Alma materBrooklyn College, CUNY, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology, behavioral biology
InstitutionsHarvard University, Emory University
ThesisInfants of a foraging people (1973)
Websitewww.melvinkonner.com

From 1985[3] on, he contributed substantially in developing the concept of a Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with Stanley Boyd Eaton,[4][5] and later also with his wife Marjorie Shostak[6] and with Loren Cordain.[7]

Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Konner has stated that he lost his faith at age 17.[8]

Selected bibliography
  • 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.
  • 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

References
  1. Melvin J. Konner, Ph.D
  2. Miscellaneous Obituaries of Anthropologists
  3. Eaton SB, Konner M. "Paleolithic nutrition. A consideration of its nature and current implications." The New England Journal of Medicine 1985 Jan 31;312(5):283-9.
  4. Eaton SB, Konner MJ. "Stone age nutrition: implications for today." Bol Asoc Med P R. 1986 May;78(5):217-9.
  5. Eaton SB, Eaton SB 3rd, Konner MJ. "Paleolithic nutrition revisited: a twelve-year retrospective on its nature and implications." Eur J Clin Nutr. 1997 Apr;51(4):207-16.
  6. Eaton SB, Konner M, Shostak M. "Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective." Am J Med. 1988 Apr;84(4):739-49.
  7. Eaton SB, Konner MJ, Cordain L. "Diet-dependent acid load, Paleolithic [corrected] nutrition, and evolutionary health promotion." Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Feb;91(2):295-7.
  8. So Was It Odd of God? - The New York Times
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