Melvin Konner | Academic Influence

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Melvin Konner

Anthropology

#100

World Rank

#164

Historical Rank

#56

USA Rank

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Melvin Konner

Biology

#529

World Rank

#928

Historical Rank

#304

USA Rank

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Melvin Konner's Degrees

Masters Medicine Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Melvin Joel Konner 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, CUNY , where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children. He also has a PhD from Harvard University and a MD from Harvard Medical School .

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Melvin Konner's Published Works

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Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective. (1988) (521)
Nursing frequency, gonadal function, and birth spacing among !Kung hunter-gatherers. (1980) (417)
An Anthropological Perspective on Obesity (1987) (379)
Paleolithic nutrition: twenty-five years later. (2010) (244)
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind (2010) (242)
Evolutionary health promotion. (2002) (211)
Women's Reproductive Cancers in Evolutionary Context (1994) (195)
CRYING IN !KUNG SAN INFANTS: A TEST OF THE CULTURAL SPECIFICITY HYPOTHESIS (1991) (186)
The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (1982) (154)
Maternal Care, Infant Behavior And Development Among The !Kung (1976) (143)
Stone Agers in the Fast Lane: Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Evolutionary Perspective (1988) (143)
An evolutionary perspective enhances understanding of human nutritional requirements. (1996) (140)
Hunter-Gatherer Infancy and Childhood : The !Kung and Others (2017) (128)
Becoming a doctor : a journey of initiation in medical school (1987) (119)
Relations among infants and juveniles in comparative perspective (1976) (117)
The Paleolithic Prescription: A Program of Diet & Exercise and a Design for Living (1988) (106)
Kung infancy: the social context of object exploration. (1990) (98)
Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage (2020) (65)
Becoming A Doctor (1987) (65)
!Kung Knowledge Of Animal Behavior: (Or: The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Animals) (1976) (61)
Testosterone levels change with subsistence hunting effort in !Kung San Men (1987) (58)
NURSING BEHAVIOUR, PROLACTIN AND POSTPARTUM AMENORRHOEA DURING PROLONGED LACTATION IN AMERICAN AND KUNG MOTHERS (1986) (56)
Diet-dependent acid load, Paleolithic [corrected] nutrition, and evolutionary health promotion. (2010) (55)
Newborn walking: additional data. (1973) (25)
Alternative Conceptions of Intellectual Functioning (1973) (24)
Medicine at the crossroads : the crisis in health care (1993) (23)
Timing and Management of Birth among the !Kung: Biocultural Interaction in Reproductive Adaptation (1987) (23)
Why the Reckless Survive (1987) (22)
Biological Aspects of the Mother—Infant Bond (1982) (20)
Understanding Trauma: Trauma, Adaptation, and Resilience: A Cross-Cultural and Evolutionary Perspective (2007) (19)
6. Infancy in Hunter-Gatherer Life: An Ethological Perspective (1974) (19)
Why the reckless survive-- and other secrets of human nature (1990) (18)
Why we heal: The evolution of psychological healing and implications for global mental health. (2020) (18)
The Trouble With Medicine (1993) (18)
CRYING IN IKUNG INFANTS: A TEST OF THE CULTURAL SPECIFICITY HYPOTHESIS (1987) (15)
An experiment on eyebrow-raising and visual searching in children. (1970) (15)
The Evolution of Childhood : Relationships , Emotion , and mind (2011) (13)
Who Responds to Crying? (2010) (12)
Human nature and culture: Biology and the residue of uniqueness. (1991) (12)
Unsettled: An Anthropology of the Jews (2003) (11)
Evolutionary psychology: Conceptual foundations (2005) (11)
The Jewish Body (2008) (11)
The ties that bind (2004) (10)
The Promise of Medical Anthropology: An Invited Commentary (1991) (10)
Nonmaternal care: a half-century of research (2018) (8)
Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally (2011) (7)
Seeking universals (2002) (6)
The ties that bind Attachment: the nature of the bonds between humans are becoming accessible to scientific investigation. (2004) (6)
Why we did it (2004) (6)
Evolution and our environment: will we adapt? (2001) (6)
Nursing frequency and birth spacing in Kung hunter-gatherers. (1978) (5)
Not to Be (1986) (5)
Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: an Anthropological Perspective (2017) (4)
One pill makes you larger. The ethics of enhancement. (1999) (4)
Nine Levels of Explanation (2021) (3)
Nutrition, Energy Expenditure, Physical Activity, and Body Composition (2019) (3)
Maternal Care and Allocare among the !Kung (2010) (3)
A Piece of Your Mind (1998) (3)
More Thoughts on Lactation as "Nature's Contraceptive" (1985) (3)
Conduct disorder and callous-unemotional traits in youth. (2015) (3)
Newborn Walking: A Reply to Pontius (1974) (3)
Progress in the Treatment of Breast Cancer. (2020) (3)
Having faith (2006) (2)
Development: Weaving life's pattern (2002) (2)
The buck stops here (2003) (2)
Dear America,: A Concerned Doctor Wants You to Know the Truth About Health Reform (1993) (2)
Hands and Minds (1985) (2)
The Nursing Knot (1985) (2)
Epidemiology: Epidemic of panic (2011) (2)
REVIEW Evolutionary Health Promotion (2002) (2)
Conflict and Evolution (2014) (1)
The Gender Option (1987) (1)
Love Among the Robots (1987) (1)
Book ReviewHealth and the Rise of Civilization (1990) (1)
5. Two Women (2011) (1)
Book Review: Evolutionary Psychology and Violence (2004) (1)
A dose of Dr Darwin (1995) (1)
Is Orgasm Essential (1988) (1)
THE ONE PILL ETHICS MAKES YOU OF LARGER ENHANCEMENT (1999) (1)
FOLLOWING A TRAJECTORY: ON “TRACING A TRAJECTORY” AND “EXPLAINING AND VALUING,” BY JAMES M. GUSTAFSON (1995) (1)
Too Desperate a Cure (1988) (1)
Some Obstacles to Altruism (2002) (1)
Take only as directed (1997) (1)
What will become of the doctor? (1996) (1)
Weaving life's pattern. (2002) (1)
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis. Renato Rosaldo (1990) (1)
The Many Faces of Madness (1987) (1)
Irven DeVore, 1934–2014 (2015) (1)
A muster of veterans. (1991) (1)
Tame thoughts on violence (1988) (1)
Book Review: Evolutionary Psychology and Violence edited by Richard W. Bloom and Nancy Dess. Praeger: Westport, CT and London, 2003 (2004) (1)
The Foundations of Ethology: By Konrad Z. Lorenz. New York: Springer, 1981, xviii + 380 pp. (1982) (1)
On Human Nature (1989) (1)
Moving Social-Behavioral Modeling Forward: Insights from Social Scientists (2019) (1)
OnHumanNature: Minding the Pain (1990) (0)
Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is it Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not (2022) (0)
At the Cutting Edge of Human Adaptation (2011) (0)
Behavioral changes around two months of age in a population of African Hunter-Gatherers (1998) (0)
Harlem, Bangladesh, and physician responsibility. (1990) (0)
Origins of language: a proposed moratorium (1979) (0)
Have we lost the healing touch? (2001) (0)
Health and the Hunter-Gatherer. Biomedical Studies on the Hunting and Gathering Populations of Southern Africa. G. T. Nurse , T. Jenkins (1978) (0)
Hunter-Gatherer Diets : How Well Did We Characterize Them (2010) (0)
Book ReviewPhysicians Observed (1988) (0)
IN THE SISTERHOOD OF SEDUCTION (1985) (0)
When Bad People Do Bad Things (2003) (0)
Philosophy: Deepities, cranes and skyhooks (2013) (0)
Bursting a south-sea bubble (1999) (0)
Two Views of Human Natures: Cultivating Nature--Including Ours. (2002) (0)
Science and Anti-Science in Anthropology: A Look Back (2017) (0)
The Discordance Model of Chronic Disease Prevention : How Well Has It Fared ? (2010) (0)
Bridging our differences. Love isn't a lost cause. Despite the gender divide, we can--with understanding and tolerance--find ways to communicate. (2003) (0)
[Cancer of the female reproductive organs and the evolutionary process]. (1991) (0)
Homo Paedens? Did Kids Invent the Human Species? (2021) (0)
World population prospects: the impact of ecological and genetic factors on human population growth in the 21st century (1999) (0)
Twenty-Five Years Later (2012) (0)
Child development in an evolutionary context. (1977) (0)
Fuzzy vision (2003) (0)
Perspective 2: Play, Plasticity, and the Perils of Conflict: “Problematizing” Sociobiology (2012) (0)
Unique. Sort of. (2009) (0)
Bad words (2018) (0)
We are not the enemy: a medical opinion. (1993) (0)
The Riddle of the Smile (1986) (0)
Before, after, and Alongside the Excavation (2019) (0)
Mothers in Prison: The Effects of Incarceration on Children's Behavioral Health Outcomes (2018) (0)

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