Nine Levels of Explanation: A Proposed Expansion of Tinbergen’s Four-Level Framework for Understanding the Causes of Behavior

Melvin Konner, Human Nature 32, 748-793, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09414-8.

Is History the Same as Evolution? No. Is It Independent of Evolution? Certainly Not.

Melvin Konner, Evolutionary Psychology 20(1), 1-18, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/147049211069137.

Hunter-Gatherer Diets and Activity as a Model for Health Promotion:  Challenges, Responses, and Confirmations

Melvin Konner and S. Boyd Eaton, Evolutionary Anthropology 2022, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21987.

Violent Origins: Mimetic Rivalry in Darwinian Evolution

Melvin Konner, in Can We Survive Our Origins?: Readings in René Girard’s Theory of Violence and the Sacred, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford, Michigan State University Press, 2015.

The Weather of Violence: Metaphors and Models, Predictions and Surprises
Melvin Konner, in Can We Counter-Terrorism Exchange (CTX) 5(3):53-63, August 2015.

Paleolithic Nutrition Twenty-Five Years Later
Melvin Konner and S. Boyd Eaton, Nutrition in Clinical Practice 25(6):594-602, 2010.

Human Nature, Ethnic Violence, and War
Melvin Konner, In The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace, Vol. 1, edited by Mari Fitzduff and Chris E. Stout, Praeger Security International, 2006.

Trauma, Adaptation, and Resilience: A Cross-Cultural and Evolutionary Perspective
Melvin Konner, In Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Lawrence J. Kirmayer,  Robert Lemelson, and Mark Barad, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Anthropology and Psychiatry

Melvin Konner, in Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/VI, Sixth Edition, Volume 1, edited by Harold I. Kaplan and Benjamin J. Sadock, Williams and Wilkins, 1995.

Human Behavioral Biology: Preparations for the Birth of a Paradigm in Anthropology

Melvin Konner, in Crisis in Anthropology, edited by E.A. Hoebel, R. Currier, and S. Kaiser, Garland Publishing, 1982.

Ethnographic Romanticism and the Idea of Human Nature: Parallels Between Samoa and !Kung San
Melvin Konner and Marjorie Shostak, in The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Lorna Marshall, 4:Quellen zur Khoisan-Forschung, ed. by Megan Biesele with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee, Helmut Buske Verlag Hamburg, 1986.

Universals of Behavioral Development in Relation to Brain Myelination
Melvin Konner, in Brain Maturation and Cognitive Development: Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspectives, edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Anne C. Petersen, Aldine de Gruyter, 1991.

Childhood and the Family: An Anthropological View
Melvin Konner, Schoolbook 1(1):3-7, 1990.

Alternative Conceptions of Intellectual Functioning
Steven R. Tulkin and Melvin J. Konner, Human Development 16:33-52, 1973.

Hunter-Gatherer Infancy and Childhood in the Context of Human Evolution
Melvin Konner, in Childhood: Origins, Evolution, and Implications, edited by Courtney L. Meehan and Alyssa N. Crittenden, School for Advanced Research/University of New Mexico, 2016, pp. 123-154.

Hunter-Gatherer Infancy and Childhood: The !Kung and Others
Melvin Konner, in Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods, edited by Barry S. Hewlett and Michael E. Lamb, Aldine/Transaction, 2005, pp. 19-64.

Nursing Frequency, Gonadal Function and Birth Spacing among !Kung Hunter-Gatherers
Melvin Konner and Carol Worthman, Science 207:788-790, 1980.

Who Responds to Crying? Maternal Care and Allocare among the !Kung
Ann Cale Kruger and Melvin Konner, Human Nature 21:309-329, 2010.

Hunter-Gatherer Diets and Activity as a Model for Health Promotion:  Challenges, Responses, and Confirmations

Melvin Konner and S. Boyd Eaton, Evolutionary Anthropology 2022, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21987.

Paleolithic Nutrition Twenty-Five Years Later
Melvin Konner and S. Boyd Eaton, Nutrition in Clinical Practice 25(6):594-602, 2010

Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of its Nature and Current Implications
Eaton, S.B. and Konner, M.J. New England Journal of Medicine 207:788-790, 1985.

Stone Agers in the Fast Lane: Chronic Degenerative Diseases in Evolutionary Perspective
S. Boyd Eaton, M.D., Melvin Konner, Ph.D., M.D. and Marjorie Shostak, American Journal of Medicine 84:739-49, 1988.

An Anthropological Perspective on Obesity
Peter J.Brown and Melvin Konner, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 499:29-46, 1987.

Women’s Reproductive Cancers in Evolutionary Context
S. Boyd Eaton et al., Quarterly Review of Biology 69(3):352-67, 1994.

Paleolithic Nutrition Revisited: A Twelve-Year Retrospective on Its Nature and Implications
S.B. Eaton, M.D., S.B. Eaton III, and M.J. Konner, Ph.D., M.D., European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 51:207-17, 1997.

An Evolutionary Perspective Enhances Understanding of Human Nutritional Requirements
S. Boyd Eaton, M.D., Stanley B. Eaton III, Melvin J. Konner, Ph.D., M.D., and Marjorie Shostak, Journal of Nutrition 126:1732-40, 1996.

Nursing Frequency, Gonadal Function and Birth Spacing among !Kung Hunter-Gatherers.
Konner, M.J. and Worthman, C. Science 207:788-790, 1980.

Evolutionary Health Promotion
S. Boyd Eaton et. al, Preventive Medicine 34, 109-118 (2002)

The Promise of Medical Anthropology: An Invited Commentary
Melvin Konner, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 5(1):78-82, 1991.

Evolution and our environment: will we adapt?
Melvin Konner, Western Journal of Medicine 174:360-61, 2001.

Nursing Frequency, Gonadal Function and Birth Spacing among !Kung Hunter-Gatherers.
Konner, M.J. and Worthman, C. Science 207:788-90, 1980.

Testosterone Levels Change With Subsistence Hunting Effort in !Kung San Men.
Worthman, C. and Konner, M.J. Pyschoneuroendocrinology, Vol 12, No 6, pp 449-458, 1987.

Timing and Management of Birth among the !Kung.
Konner, M.J. and Shostak, M. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 11-28, 1987.

Crying in !Kung San infants: A Test of the Cultural Specificity Hypothesis
Roger Bakeman, Lauren B. Adamson, Melvin Konner, and Ronald G Barr, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 33:601-10, 1991.

!Kung Infancy: The Social Context of Object Exploration
Roger Bakeman, Lauren B. Adamson, Melvin Konner, and Ronald G. Barr, Child Development 61:794-809.

Aspects of the Developmental Ethology of a Foraging People
Melvin Konner, in Ethological Studies of Child Behavior, edited by Nicholas G. Blurton Jones, Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Ethnographic Romanticism and the Idea of Human Nature: Parallels Between Samoa and !Kung San
Melvin Konner and Marjorie Shostak, in The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives. Essays in Honour of Lorna Marshall, edited by Megan Biesele, with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee, Helmut-Buske Verlag, Hamburg, 1987.

Newborn Walking: Additional Data
Melvin Konner, Science 179:307.

!Kung Knowledge of Animal Behavior (or, The Proper Study of Mankind Is Animals)

Nicholas G. Blurton Jones and Melvin Konner, In:  R.B. Lee and I. DeVore (eds.), Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers.  Cambridge, Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press, pp. 325-348.