Causation and Behavior: The Necessity and Benefits of Incorporating Evolutionary Thinking into Political Science.
Political science now recognizes that both biological and social factors are significant to the expression of political phenomena. While necessary, this development has significant theoretical and methodological consequences. The recognition of biological and social factors complicates, rather than...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 1677 - 1699 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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