Selected articles
Konner and C. Worthman. Nursing frequency, gonadal function and birth spacing amount !Kung hunter-gathers. Science 207:788, 1980.

Human behavioral biology: Preparations for the birth of a paradigm in anthropology, in E. Adamson Hoebel (ed.), Crisis in Anthropology, 1980.

Evolution of human behavior development, in R. L. Munro et al. (eds.), Handbook of Cross-cultural Development, 1981.

Eaton, S. B. and Konner.  Paleolithic nutrition.  New Engl. J. Med. 312:283, 1985.

Brown, P. and Konner.  An anthropological perspective on obesity. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 499:29, 1987.

Worthman, C.M. and Konner.  Testosterone levels change with subsistence an men.  Psychoneuroendocrinol.  12(6):449, 1987.

Barr, R.G., Konner, M., Bakeman, R., and Adamson, L. Crying in !Kung San infants.  Develo. Mel. Child Neurol. 33.601, 1991.

Universals of behavioral development in relation to brain myelination, in Bigson and Petersen (eds.), Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development, 1982.

Eaton, S.B. and eight others.  Women’s cancers in evolutionary perspective.  Quart. Rev. Biol., September, 1994.

Selected Books
The Tangled Wing:  Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, 1982.  Nominated for the American Book Award (Science); (see chapter notes on The Tangled Wing)

Why the Reckless Survive, and Other Secrets of Human Nature, 1990;

Childhood, November 1991, companion volume to a PBS television series

Medicine at the Crossroads (British ed., The Trouble with Medicine, 1992, companion volumes to PBS and BBC television series.

Etc.
Column, “On Human Nature,” bimonthly in The Sciences, the magazine of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1985-8; regular contributor to the “Body and Mind” column, The New York Times Magazine, 1987-89.
 

 

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