Man is by nature a political animal
Subtitle: evolution, biology, and politics
By: Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott
Contributors: McDermott, Rose, 1962-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780226319094; 9780226319100
Subjects: Political sociology; Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences; Biopolitics; Sociobiology
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution as a theory for political behavior / Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott; title: Political primates: what other primates can tell us about the evolutionary roots of our own political behavior / Darby Proctor and Sarah Brosnan; title: Formal evolutionary modeling for political scientists / Oleg Smirnov, Tim Johnson; title: 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; title: Gene-environment interplay for the study of political behaviors / Jason D. Boardman; title: Genes, games, and political participation / James H. Fowler, Peter J. Loewen, Jaime Settle, and Christopher T. Dawes; title: The mind-body connection: psychophysiology as an approach to studying political attitudes and behaviors / Kevin B. Smith and John R. Hibbing; title: Hormones and politics / Rose McDermott; title: Testosterone and the biology of politics: experimental evidence from the 2008 presidential election / Coren L. Apicella and David A. Cesarini; title: From scan to neuropolitics / Darren Schreiber.