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Dr. McKenna is the author of Sleeping
with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping. He received his undergraduate
degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D.
from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology, specializing in the evolution of
human parenting systems and human development. He taught at the University of
California at Berkeley for two years before accepting a tenure track position at
Pomona College in Claremont, California where he taught for 20 years, and won several
teaching awards. In 1997, he was recruited by the University of Notre Dame, where he
is a Professor and the director of the University of
Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. He also contributes to the
blog Neuroanthropology.
Dr. McKenna is best known for his pioneering studies of the
differences between the physiology and behavior of solitary and co-sleeping mothers an
infants-and the connection these data might have in addressing SIDS risks. He has
published three books, the most recent one entitled Evolutionary Medicine with
Oxford University Press. In addition, he has published well over 50 peer-reviewed
papers on SIDS and co-sleeping.
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