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Mark Plotkin

American ethnobotanist

PersonAge 71humanQ6769279

Born: May 21, 1955
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: anthropologist
, botanist
, ethnobotanist
Education: Harvard Extension School
, Tufts University
, Harvard Graduate School of Education
+2 more

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Mark J. Plotkin is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems. Plotkin is an advocate for tropical rainforest conservation, and is the co-founder and president of the Amazon Conservation Team. He is the host of the Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast.

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MMark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t2014 · TEDGlobal 2014

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Mark
Family name: Plotkin

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