Melvin Konner Explained

Melvin Konner
Birth Date:	1946 8, mf=yes
Fields:	Anthropology, behavioral biology
Workplaces:	Harvard University, Emory University
Alma Mater:	Brooklyn College, CUNY, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Thesis Title:	Infants of a foraging people
Thesis Year:	1973
Thesis Url:	http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|004736471

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. He also has a PhD from Harvard University (1973) and a MD from Harvard Medical School (1985).^{[2] [3]}

From 1985^[4] on, he contributed substantially to developing the concept of a Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with Stanley Boyd Eaton,^{[5] [6]} and later also with his wife Marjorie Shostak^[7] and with Loren Cordain.^[8]

Raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, Konner has stated that he lost his faith at age 17.^[9]

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.
• 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

• Paleolithic diet
• Hunter-gatherer
• Stanley Boyd Eaton, researcher
• Loren Cordain, researcher
• Staffan Lindeberg, researcher

External links

• Melvin Konner's blog on anthropology and human nature
• Melvin Konner's blog on Jewish subjects

Notes and References

1. Web site: Melvin Konner . . https://web.archive.org/web/20190421062816/http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/konner.html . 21 April 2019.
2. Web site: Miscellaneous Obituaries of Anthropologists. www.obitcentral.com.
3. Book: Konner, M.D., Melvin . Becoming a Doctor, A Journey of Initiation in Medical School . New York . Viking Penguin . 1987 . 978-067080554-9.
4. 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.
5. Eaton SB, Konner MJ. "Stone age nutrition: implications for today." Bol Asoc Med P R. 1986 May;78(5):217-9.
6. 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.
7. Eaton SB, Konner M, Shostak M. "Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective." The American Journal of Medicine 1988 Apr;84(4):739-49.
8. 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.
9. News: So Was It Odd of God?. Jonathan. Rosen. The New York Times . December 14, 2003. NYTimes.com.