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Meredith F. Small is an award-winning college professor and science writer. She was born November 20, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father worked for General Electric, and she moved around often.^{[clarification needed]} Because of frequent relocating, she transferred five times as a college student. During her junior year, she changed her major from music to anthropology and developed a strong interest in primatology, the subject of her dissertation. When she was 38, she realized her talent for writing, and applied her skill to her interest in culture, human evolution, and biology. Today, she is an anthropologist–primatologist and science journalist. She has written six books on the anthropology of human mating, mental illness, and child-rearing across cultures.

Career

Small entered the field in the late 1970s working on captive macaques at the California Primate Center in Davis, California, where she received a Ph.D. in 1980. She worked in the anthropological genetics laboratory of David Glenn Smith and spent one year in France studying the mating and mother-infant behavior of Barbary macaques. Small also spent some time in Bali, Indonesia, working on crab-eating or long-tail macaques. In 1988 Small moved to Cornell University where she is currently a professor of anthropology, the first woman in the department to become a full professor. In 1995, she was named a Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest teaching award at Cornell.

Small began writing extensively for the popular audience just before her move to Cornell, and by the 1990s, Small shifted into mainstream journalism, writing articles for such publications as Natural History, Discover Magazine, Scientific American and New Scientist. She regards this work as a form of teaching [1].

In 2005, the American Anthropological Association awarded her an Anthropology in Media award for "the successful communication of anthropology to the general public through the media" and for her "broad and sustained public impact at local, national and international levels."

Her articles have twice been in included in The Best Science and Nature Writing series.

From 2007 until 2010 she wrote a weekly column called Human Nature for LiveScience.com and these can still be viewed on line. Today, Meredith Small lives in the small town of Ithaca, NY, Home to Ivy league school Cornell University, which is where she works, teaching anthropology. She lives with her daughter and her cat, "Munchkin". Small writes a blog, in which she writes about the anthropology that pops up in everyday life. It is called "The Anthropology of Every Life" which can be accessed at http://www.meredithfsmall.blogspot.com/.

Books

1993 - Female Choices; Sexual Behavior of Female Primates. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, NY.
1995 - What's Love Got to do with it? The Evolution of Human Mating. Anchor Books (Doubleday)
1998 - Our Babies, Ourselves; How Biology and Culture Shape the Way we Parent. Anchor Books (Doubleday).
2001 - Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Our Children. Doubleday.
2006 - The Culture of Our Discontent; Beyond the Medical Model of Mental Illness. Joseph Henry Press: Washington, DC.

References

External links

Prime Mates: The Useful Promiscuity of Bonobo Apes by Meredith F. Small ...:
www.nerve.com/Dispatches/Small/bonobo/ Written by Meredith Small
DNA Kits: Secrets of Your Past or Scientific Scam? LiveScience:
www.livescience.com/history/071207-hn-dna-kits.html
Babies, Ourselves with Meredith F. Small:
www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=54322
Meredith Small profile:
www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb06/Small.facets.lg.html
Meredith Small - Department of Anthropology at Cornell University:
falcon.arts.cornell.edu/anthro/faculty/faculty_MSmall.php

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-'''Meredith F. Small''' was born November 20, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father worked for General Electric, and she moved around often.{{Clarify|date=September 2010}} Because of frequent relocating, she transferred five times as a college student. During her junior year, she changed her major from music to anthropology and developed a strong interest in primatology, the subject of her dissertation. When she was 38, she realized her talent for writing, and applied her skill to her interest in culture, human evolution, and biology. Today, she is an [[anthropologist]]–[[primatologist]] and science journalist. She has written six books on the anthropology of human mating, mental illness, and child-rearing across cultures.
+'''Meredith F. Small''' is an award-winning college professor and science writer.  She was born November 20, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father worked for General Electric, and she moved around often.{{Clarify|date=September 2010}} Because of frequent relocating, she transferred five times as a college student. During her junior year, she changed her major from music to anthropology and developed a strong interest in primatology, the subject of her dissertation. When she was 38, she realized her talent for writing, and applied her skill to her interest in culture, human evolution, and biology. Today, she is an [[anthropologist]]–[[primatologist]] and science journalist. She has written six books on the anthropology of human mating, mental illness, and child-rearing across cultures.
 ==Career==
-Small entered the field in the late 1970s working on captive macaques at the California Primate Center in Davis, California, where she received a Ph.D. in 1980. She worked in the anthropological genetics laboratory of David Glenn Smith and spent one year in France studying the mating and mother-infant behavior of Barbary macaques. Small also spent some time in Bali, Indonesia, working on crab-eating or long-tail macaques. In 1988 Small moved to Cornell University where she is currently a professor of anthropology, the first woman in the department to become a full professor.
+Small entered the field in the late 1970s working on captive macaques at the California Primate Center in Davis, California, where she received a Ph.D. in 1980. She worked in the anthropological genetics laboratory of David Glenn Smith and spent one year in France studying the mating and mother-infant behavior of Barbary macaques. Small also spent some time in Bali, Indonesia, working on crab-eating or long-tail macaques. In 1988 Small moved to Cornell University where she is currently a professor of anthropology, the first woman in the department to become a full professor.  In 1995, she was named a Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest teaching award at Cornell.
 Small began writing extensively for the popular audience just before her move to Cornell, and by the 1990s, Small shifted into mainstream journalism, writing articles for such publications as [[Natural History]], [[Discover Magazine]], [[Scientific American]] and [[New Scientist]]. She regards this work as a form of teaching [http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb06/Small.facets.lg.html].
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 From 2007 until 2010 she wrote a weekly column called Human Nature for LiveScience.com and these can still be viewed on line.
 Today, Meredith Small lives in the small town of Ithaca, NY, Home to Ivy league school Cornell University, which is where she works, teaching anthropology.
-She lives with her daughter, and her cat, "Munchkin".
+She lives with her daughter and her cat, "Munchkin".
-Meredith writes a blog, in which she writes about the anthropology that pops up in everyday life. It is called "The Anthropology of Every Life" which can be accessed at www.meredithfsmall.wordpress.com. She plans to move to blogspot, soon.
+Small writes a blog, in which she writes about the anthropology that pops up in everyday life. It is called "The Anthropology of Every Life" which can be accessed at http://www.meredithfsmall.blogspot.com/.
 ==Books==