Missing biologist surfaces, reunites with family
Margaret “Margie” Profet has returned. In Psychology Today this month, journalist Mike Martin tells the haunting tale of a promising young evolutionary biologist who vanished without a trace. Profet won a coveted MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 1993 based on her compelling but controversial ideas about the adaptive value of allergies, menstruation and morning sickness. Read more
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