Darwinian Anthropologists

The New York Times Magazine has a long article on the colorful author of  The Fierce People [1]:

How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist [2]

I wrote about the role of personality in cultural anthropology last fall [3].

Perhaps anthropologists who become interested in Darwinian perspectives tend to be more masculine than those anthropologists who eschew Darwin in favor of Marx, Freud, Levi-Strauss, Gimbutas [4], or whomever? Besides Chagnon, I'd mention Robin Fox, Henry Harpending [5], and Carleton Coon. A delight in hunting might be a common denominator. (Darwin, himself, was an obsessive hunter when young, as was his cousin Galton.)

In general, the Darwinian tradition owes a lot to smart country boys, as I pointed out in a review of Edward O. Wilson's novel, Anthill [6]. In contrast, Darwinism tends to strike urban intellectuals as suspicious, probably unnatural.