f the best nourished populations thus far described in the anthropological/biomedical literature. Unlike Chagnons burly men, the villagers I encountered were as Rice had observed in 1924 tiny and scrawny. [Pg. 54]) Are all true I dont believe the vast majority of Chagnons research was falsified or misleading nearly 40 years of false, purposefully misleading information would be an absurd, pointless task of monumental proportions.Overall, I do not believe Harriss theories are, or should be, damaged significantly even in a worst case scenario (described by Tierney). His theory could stand alone without the evidence provided by the Yanomamo and in all probability the conclusions drawn from them were, indeed, valid....
