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Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach

Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary Approach

Somit, A.
Peterson, S.

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1403961166
ISBN13: 9781403961167
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 22 2003
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.52
Language: English
Arguing for an evolutionary perspective, this book directly challenges the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) on which public policy has often been based. The SSSM maintains that human behavior is solely the product of culture and learning. In sharp contrast, the Evolutionary Model (EM) holds that our behavior flows from the interaction between learning and culture, on the one hand, and biological factors-especially our evolutionary legacy-on the other. These different approaches to human behavior understandably lead to divergent conceptions of sound domestic and foreign policy. The SSSM views human behavior as essentially plastic and thus readily changed by governmental action. Disagreeing, the Evolutionary Model sees that malleability as seriously limited by our species' evolved propensity for aggression, status seeking, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and hierarchical social structures.

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