You may wonder about my background for teaching a broad, interdisciplinary course grounded in biology. After all, as you probably know, I am—at least formally—a political scientist. However, while political science is my home discipline, I have seldom paid much attention to disciplinary boundaries. In addition to a broad undergraduate education, I took courses in four different disciplines in graduate school. A fifth discipline was represented on my doctoral dissertation committee, and a sixth discipline—evolutionary biology—was an important part of that dissertation. In addition, one of my three Ph.D. fields was also outside of political science, in a combination of political anthropology and cultural evolutionary theory.
This broad background prepared me well for a scholarly career in biopolitics (or politics and the life sciences), a broad interdisciplinary field that lies at the intersection of political science and the life sciences.
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The Origins of Human Nature
by Gary R. Johnson
You may wonder about my background for teaching a broad, interdisciplinary course grounded in biology. After all, as you probably know, I am—at least formally—a political scientist. However, while political science is my home discipline, I have seldom paid much attention to disciplinary boundaries. In addition to a broad undergraduate education, I took courses in four different disciplines in graduate school. A fifth discipline was represented on my doctoral dissertation committee, and a sixth discipline—evolutionary biology—was an important part of that dissertation. In addition, one of my three Ph.D. fields was also outside of political science, in a combination of political anthropology and cultural evolutionary theory.
This broad background prepared me well for a scholarly career in biopolitics (or politics and the life sciences), a broad interdisciplinary field that lies at the intersection of political science and the life sciences.
The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism
by Vincent S. Falger
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The Sociobiology of Ethnocentrism: Evolutionary Dimensions of Xenophobia, Discrimination, Racism and Nationalism
by Vernon Reynolds, Vincent Falger and Ian Vine