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Average rating: 3.7 · 1,877 ratings · 181 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Yanomamö 3.62 avg rating — 1,347 ratings — published 1966 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists 3.92 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adaptation and Human Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective by Lee Cronk (editor), William Irons (Editor), Napoleon A. Chagnon (Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primitive Worlds: People Lost in Time (Special Publications Series 8, No. 2) by Napoleon A. Chagnon, Neville Dyson-Hudson, Tor Eigeland 3.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective by Napoleon A. Chagnon, William Irons 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Studying the Yanomamo 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yanomamö-Savasa Doganlar 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Toward the Ph.D. for dogs: Obedience training from novice through utility by Robert J. Martin, Napoleon A. Chagnon 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The tokens of wealth that we civilized people covet are largely irrelevant to success and survival in the tribal world and were irrelevant during most of human history. But women have always been the most valuable single resource that men fight for and defend.”
― Napoleon A. Chagnon, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

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“Break the wrist, walk away.”
― Napoleon A. Chagnon

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“[R]ecent emphasis in the social sciences on wealth and control of scarce, strategic material resources in the political evolution of Homo sapiens applies only to the most recent era of human history, perhaps only the last eight thousand or so years. Indeed, the whole purpose and design of the social structures of tribesmen seems to have revolved around effectively controlling sexual access by males to nubile, reproductive-age females: the purpose or function of 'social organization' among tribesmen (and many nonhuman animals) seems to have been the efficient regulation of sexual access to females by males and the role that male coalitions play in this process.”
― Napoleon A. Chagnon, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes - the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

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