Man is by nature a political animal : evolution, biology, and politics / Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

xv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.