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Melvin Konner

Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology at Emory. His most recent book, The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind, was published in paperback in November. (December 2011)

It Does Take a Village

It Does Take a Village

Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

December 8, 2011 issue

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