Napoleon Chagnon Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Napoleon A. Chagnon (/ˈʃæɡnən/ SHAG-nən; born 1938) is an American anthropologist, professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri in Columbia and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Chagnon is known for his long-term ethnographic field work among the Yanomamö, a society of indigenous tribal Amazonians, in which he used a then-unconventional evolutionary theory approach to understand social behavior in terms of genetic relatedness. Admirers saw him as having been a pioneer of scientific anthropology. Critics objected to his emphasis on biological explanations, especially for violence. Chagnon has been called the "most controversial anthropologist" in the United States in a New York Times Magazine profile preceding the publication of Chagnon's most recent book, Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes—the Yanomamö and the Anthropologists, a scientific memoir.