Isn't that giving him too much credit? After all, Herbert Spencer
popularized the notion long ago.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:

> The best way to understand Napoleon Chagnon’s contribution to
> anthropology is to tune in to one of those television wildlife
> documentaries showing an alpha-male baboon beating and biting the living
> bejeezus out of a rival, or being beaten into submission himself. As the
> narrator is wont to say, “Thus the winner of nature’s eternal battle has
> earned the right to enjoy the sexual privileges that guarantee survival
> of the fittest genes.”
>
> full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/22/chagnons-war/
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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