In a series of online posts (appearing on the Evolutionary Psychology Group at Yahoo.com)between March 30, 2008 and April 5, 2008, anthropologists Napoleon Chagnon and Douglas P. Fry discuss the assertion that among the Yanomami (or Yanomamö) of South America, those men who have participated in a killing have over three times the number of children as same-aged men who have not participated in killing. This topic has become known as the unokai reproductive success controversy.
The posts involving the unokai reproductive success controversy from the spring of 2008 are herein reproduced in complete, unabridged form, as an accompaniment to a book chapter authored by Marta Miklikowska and Douglas P. Fry. The book chapter is titled "Natural Born Nonkillers: A Critique of the Killers-Have-More-Kids Idea" and appears in "Nonkilling Psychology," edited by Joám Evans Pim, with an anticipated publication date of July 2011. Upon publication, the book containing this chapter will be available both in paperback format and as a free download at the following link:
http://www.nonkilling.org/node/18
An Appendix at the end of the Miklikowska and Fry chapter contains excerpts from the Chagnon and Fry posts, but here at this site the original posts from 2008 on the Yanomami unokai controversy are presented in complete and unabridged form.
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