Melvin Joel Konner

Melvin Konner, 2010.

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. 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).

From 1985 on, he contributed substantially to developing the concept of a Paleolithic diet and its impact on health, publishing along with Stanley Boyd Eaton, and later also with his wife Marjorie Shostak and with Loren Cordain.

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

In Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy Konner calls being male a birth defect.

See Also

• Greg Laden
• The End of Male Supremacy
• Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy