The Biological Bases of Behavior and Some Implications for Political Science
- 1 April 1971
- journal article
- Published by Project MUSE in World Politics
- Vol. 23 (3) , 321-370
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2009618
Abstract
In what must surely rank as one of the strangest episodes in the entirehistory of science, two generations of our immediate forebears in the social sciences managed virtually to ignore the “Darwinian” theory of biological evolution and to exclude from their purview any sustained consideration of the role of biological factors in the shaping of human behavior.Keywords
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