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Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
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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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