Word: konner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DeVore said the course was especially well-attended yesterday when his co-instructor, Melvin J. Konner, brought his eight-day-old daughter, Susanna Stastok, into class. "We were studying newborn infants and he just happened to have one," DeVore said...
Melvin J. Konner, Associate Professor...
...many, such explanations of noble deeds are cold comfort. But Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner sees a bright side to reciprocal altruism. Sociobiologists, he says, "have in fact uplifted [human nature] by showing that altruism, long thought to be a thin cultural veneer, belongs instead to the deepest part of our being, produced by countless aeons of consistent evolution...
...bishop's dithering wife is alive, well, residing in modern America and very dangerous, says Harvard Anthropologist Melvin J. Konner. In fact, he fears, she was very much in evidence at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in Washington, where the subject of angry debate was the divisive new discipline of sociobiology and its chief spokesman Edward O. Wilson. The bishop's wife, says Konner, "did not like what Darwin said, what Marx and Engels said, what Freud said, and now she does not like what Wilson says: they all make her feel 'lower...
...finally over, now that, as the Globe says, "the silly season has returned to Harvard," whatever force it is in America that wages wars of extermination may rouse itself again and prepare to engage, without fear of its conscience on the campuses, since that conscience is safely asleep. Mel Konner, Ph.D. '73 Department of Anthropology