Sentences with phrase «ethnobotanist paul»
In 2002 ethnobotanist Paul Cox from the Institute for Ethnobotany at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Kalaheo, Hawaii, and neurologist Oliver Sacks from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City introduced a shocking theory about how Chamorros might be ingesting enough BMAA to damage neurons in the brain and spinal cord.
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Paul Cox, an ethnobotanist and director of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawaii, calls the team's work fascinating and says that although healers from indigenous tribes have long valued young leaves for their superior medicinal qualities, the team's work is «the first to test this hypothesis in a rigorous fashion.»