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]

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  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.