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The most controversial and famous anthropologist of our time describes his seminal lifelong research among the Yanomam? Indians of the Amazon basin and how his startling observations provoked admiration among many fellow anthropologists and outrage among others.ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIME When Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela?s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomam? Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau?s ?noble savages,? so-called primitive people living contentedly in a pristine state of nature. Instead Chagnon discovered a remarkably violent society. Men who killed others had the most wives and offspring, their violence possibly giving them an evolutionary advantage. The prime reasons for violence, Chagnon found, were to avenge deaths and, if possible, abduct women. When Chagnon began publishing his observations, some cultural anthropologists who could not accept an evolutionary