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Matthew Wolf-Meyer
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By contemporary standards, Chagnon is barely recognizable as an anthropologist, and most of what he's lamenting is the fact that he's been left in the dust. Outside of a handful of departments, and most of those dominated by biological anthropologists, sociobiology is seen as highly reductive pseudo-science — hence