Man Is by Nature a Political Animal : Evolution, Biology, and Politics


Peter K. Hatemi
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Chicago : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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1 online resource (335 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Evolution as a Theory for Political Behavior; 2. Political Primates: What Other Primates Can Tell Us about the Evolutionary Roots of Our Own Political Behavior; 3. Formal Evolutionary Modeling for Political Scientists; 4. Modeling the Cultural and Biological Inheritance of Social and Political Behavior in Twins and Nuclear Families; 5. Gene-Environment Interplay for the Study of Political Behaviors; 6. Genes, Games, and Political Participation. - 7. The Mind-Body Connection: Psychophysiology as an Approach toStudying Political Attitudes and Behaviors8. Hormones and Politics; 9. Testosterone and the Biology of Politics: Experimental Evidence from the 2008 Presidential Election; 10. From SCAN to Neuropolitics; 11. Conclusion; Index. - In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including the comparative basis of political behavior, the utility of formal modeling informed by evolutionary theory, the genetic bases of a
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0226319091. - 0226319105. - 9780226319094. - 9780226319100

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