Season 3 · Episode 2
Plants of the Gods: S3E2. Peyote: Richard Schultes and the Peyote Road
The Plants of the Gods podcast · Mark Plotkin
May 25, 202216m 59s
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Show Notes
Today, we'll follow Dr. Mark Plotkin as he shares the story of Richard Evans Schultes, who, as a busy work-study undergraduate student at Harvard, chose the shortest book he could find to serve as the subject of his term paper for his Plants & Human Affairs class. As fate would have it, this short book – which happened to be about peyote – would launch his career. Not only would he go on to teach this very same class years later, he has come to be revered as the father of ethnobotany.