Sentences with phrase «ethnobotany from»
Ian has an MSc in ethnobotany from the University of Kent, and a DPhil (PhD) in anthropology from the University of Oxford.
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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.
Best known for discovering prostratin, an anti-AIDS drug derived from the mamala tree of Samoa, Cox was well respected in ethnobotany, but veterans of the Guam epidemic regarded him as a newcomer unlikely to succeed where the giants of neuroscience had failed.