Dr. Melvin Konner is a Professor of Anthropology and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University. He spent two years among the !Kung San (Bushmen), and has taught at Harvard and then at Emory, for over 30 years. He teaches courses on human biology, human brain/behavior relations, biological approaches to childhood, human nature, medicine and society, and the anthropology of the Jews. He has been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the Foundations’ Fund for Research in Psychiatry, and the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s Anthropology in Media Award for 2004. He is the author of ten books, including The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind (2011) and The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit (Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1982, American Book Award nominee).
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