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Margie Profet holds bachelors degrees from both Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, she was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Washington from 1994-1997, 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.

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

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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