Margie Profet

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Margie Profet holds bachelors degrees from both Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, she is a scientist at the University of Washington, Seattle. She conducts research in the fields of evolutionary biology and astronomy. She became a MacArthur Fellow in 1993.

She created controversy in the 1990s when she self-published her findings on the role of menstruation and morning sickness in evolution. Conservative scientists refused to acknowledge research by someone they considered an outsider without an advanced degree.

[edit] Works

  • Profet, Margie (1997) Pregnancy Sickness: Using Your Body's Natural Defenses to Protect Your Baby-To-Be
  • Profet, Margie (1995) Protecting Your Baby-To-Be: Preventing Birth Defects in the First Trimester

[edit] References

  • Margie Profet - researcher of evolutionary physiology - Interview Omni, May, 1994 by Shari Rudavksy [1]
  • Evolutionary Theories for Everyday Life Scientific American, April, 1996 by Marguerite Holloway [2]
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