Title: Man is by nature a political animal : evolution, biology, and politics /
Authors: Hatemi, Peter K.; Hatemi, Peter K.; McDermott, Rose, 1962-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biopolitics.; Political sociology.; Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences.; Sociobiology
Abstract: In this work, the editors bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behaviour.
Contents: Evolution as a theory for political behavior / Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott -- Political primates: what other primates can tell us about the evolutionary roots of our own political behavior / Darby Proctor and Sarah Brosnan -- Formal evolutionary modeling for political scientists / Oleg Smirnov, Tim Johnson -- Modeling the cultural and biological inheritance of social and political behavior in twins and nuclear families / Lindon J. Eaves, Peter K. Hatemi, Andrew C. Heath, and Nicholas G. Martin -- Gene-environment interplay for the study of political behaviors / Jason D. Boardman -- Genes, games, and political participation / James H. Fowler, Peter J. Loewen, Jaime Settle, and Christopher T. Dawes -- The mind-body connection: psychophysiology as an approach to studying political attitudes and behaviors / Kevin B. Smith and John R. Hibbing -- Hormones and politics / Rose McDermott -- Testosterone and the biology of politics: experimental evidence from the 2008 presidential election / Coren L. Apicella and David A. Cesarini -- From scan to neuropolitics / Darren Schreiber.