Published On Jun 15, 2022
The Life of a Harvard Ethnobotanist: Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes was a pioneering ethnobotanist and conservationist. In this video, Mark J. Plotkin, Ph.d., explains the impact of Schultes' life and career, his time at Harvard University, and details several of the species that Schultes brought from the Amazon to the outside world.
Read More in the Feature article in the July-August 2022 issue of Harvard Magazine:
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/...
Ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin, A.B.E. ’79, Ph.D., is president of the nonprofit Amazon Conservation Team (www.amazonteam.org) and host of the podcast, “Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation.”
View the Amazon Team's interactive map of Schultes' life: https://www.amazonteam.org/maps/schul...