The author, already in his mid thirties and distinguished as a scholar, tenured professor, and published writer before beginning medical school, chronicles his third year of medical training
This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling
A vital updating of a seminal work of science First published to great acclaim twenty years ago, T he Tangled Wing has become required reading for anyone interested in the biological roots of human
Far reaching, intellectually rich, and passionately written, Unsettled takes the whole history of Western civilization as its canvas and places onto it the Jewish people and faith. With historical ins
This book is an intellectual tour de force: a comprehensive Darwinian interpretation of human development. Looking at the entire range of human evolutionary history, Melvin Konner tells the compelling
An anthropologist examines the nature of religiosity, and how it shapes and benefits humankind.Believers is a scientist’s answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers. I
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesA history of the Jewish people from bris to burial, from “muscle Jews” to nose jobs.Melvin Konner, a renowned doctor and anthropologist, takes the measure of the “Je
There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrun
How can an academic who does not believe evil spirits cause illness harbor the hope that her cancer may be cured by a healer who enters a trance to battle her demons? Whose actions are more (or less)
