Adaptation, Heritability, and the Emergence of Evolutionary Political Science

Political Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 343-362

  Lopez, Anthony C ^a   McDermott, Rose ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Coalitional psychology; Evolutionary psychology; Genetics; Political behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861579276     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2012.00880.x     Document Type: Article

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