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Melvin Konner, M.D.,
Ph.D.
(Co-Investigator)
Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
in the Department of Anthropology and the Program
in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.
His MD and PhD are from Harvard University, where
he taught before coming to Emory. He spent two years
doing research on infant behavior and development
among the !Kung San (Bushmen), hunter-gatherers of
Botswana. He is the author of The Tangled Wing:
Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, Becoming
a Doctor, and Childhood: A Multicultural
Approach, among other books. His treatise, Childhood
Evolving: Emotion, Relationships, and Mind, the
product of more than forty years of thought, is currently
under review. He is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and has written for
the New York Times and Newsweek
as well as Nature, Science and The
New England Journal of Medicine. He has testified
at two U.S. Senate committee hearings, one on single-payer
health reform and one on end-of-life issues. Courses
he has taught recently include “Foundations
of Behavior,” “The Human Brain,”
“Diseases,” “Biocultural Approaches
to Childhood,” and “Anthropology of the
Jews.” His recent chapter, “Human Nature,
Ethnic Violence, and War,” in Fitzduff and Stout’s
The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts,
cites Girard’s concepts of mimesis and the sacralization
of war through sacrifice as vital to our understanding
of human conflict.
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