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/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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