FRONT COVER -- BIOLOGY AND POLITICS: THE CUTTING EDGE -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART II: GENES, EVOLUTION, AND POLITICS -- THE STATES' RESPONSE TO PARENTAL DIVESTMENT: COULD SAFE HAVEN LEGISLATION LEAD TO MORE CHILD ABANDONMENT? -- OVERVIEW OF STATES' SAFE HAVEN LAWS -- EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES WITH CHILD ABANDONMENT -- CONTEMPORARY ANALYSES OF CHILD ABANDONMENT -- EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON CHILD ABANDONMENT AND INFANTICIDE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- A MODEL OF ACTIONS AND NORMS: AN INTEGRATED EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON NORMATIVE ETHICS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR -- INTRODUCTION -- ACTIONS IN AN EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK -- MORAL SPHERES: A BROAD CLASSIFICATION OF ETHICAL RULES -- UNDERSTANDING HUMAN UNSELFISHNESS -- MORAL CONFLICTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE BIOPOLITICS OF PRIMATES -- INTRODUCTION -- PRIMATES IN THEIR NATURAL HABITAT: THE FIRST GENERATION OF PRIMATOLOGISTS -- THE EXTENT OF ANIMAL INTERGROUP AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR -- EXPLANATIONS OF LETHAL RAIDING IN CHIMPANZEES -- REFERENCES -- MEASURING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHENOTYPES -- INTRODUCTION -- REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE -- RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY -- THE UNIVARIATE ACE MODEL -- RELIABILITY TESTING WITH THE ACE MODEL -- VALIDITY TESTING WITH THE ACE MODEL -- THE CHOLESKY DECOMPOSITION -- IMPORTANCE OF MEASUREMENT -- LIMITATIONS OF THE TWIN MODELS -- ENDOPHENOTYPES -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- POLITICAL SCIENCE AND BEHAVIOR GENETICS: RETHINKING FOUNDATIONAL ASSUMPTIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CHANGING CONCEPTION OF THE GENOME -- THE EPIGENOME -- IMPLICATIONS -- BEHAVIORAL EPIGENETICS -- MATERNAL EFFECTS AND ADAPTATION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FROM GENES TO POLITICS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EXPLANATIONS OF POLITICAL BEHAVIOR VIA TWIN STUDIES.

FROM GENES TO POLITICS -- BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL EXPLANATIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GENES, TWIN STUDIES, AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR -- INTRODUCTION -- BEHAVIORAL GENETICS -- ACESOLADE MODELS -- MOLECULAR GENETICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PART III: THE BRAIN AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR -- NEUROLOGICAL IMAGING AND THE EVALUATION OF COMPETING THEORIES -- INTRODUCTION -- IMAGING AND NEURAL MECHANISMS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- COMPARATIVE THEORY TESTING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE WITH NEUROSCIENTIFIC DATA -- LIMITATIONS ON COLLECTING AND INTERPRETING NEUROSCIENTIFIC DATA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- BRAIN SCIENCES AND POLITICS: SOME LINKAGES -- TECHNOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- ETHICS, POLITICS, AND BRAIN INTERVENTION -- POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BRAIN SCIENCES -- NEUROSCIENCE POLICY -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- BRAIN IMAGING AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: A SURVEY -- INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL BRAIN -- MAPPING AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE -- THE LINK BETWEEN SEROTONIN AND AGGRESSION -- THE EFFECTS OF TESTOSTERONE ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR -- MAPPING IN-GROUP/OUT-GROUP RELATIONS -- PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION -- ALTRUISM AND COOPERATION -- MAPPING PARTISAN PREFERENCE AND POLITICAL JUDGMENT -- THE LIMITATIONS OF BRAIN IMAGING TECHNIQUES -- CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF BRAIN IMAGING -- REFERENCES.