< p>COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A prominent anthropologist and a family historian who's also a best-selling author top the agenda for an annual University of Missouri science symposium.

Napoleon Chagnon (SHAG-nehn) is best known for his field research in Venezuela with the Yanomamo tribe. The new Missouri faculty member will read from his memoir, "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists."

Chagnon was scheduled to speak at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Bond Life Sciences Center as part of the school's Life Sciences & Society Symposium. This year's theme is "Claiming Kin."

Also scheduled to appear is Evergreen State College researcher Stephanie Coontz, a frequent commentator on family relations and author of the 2005 book "Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage."

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Online:

Claiming Kin conference, http://lssp.missouri.edu/claimingkin