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The Origin of Political Species

A NEW BOOK BY Robert Haston

Text Box: On the Internet: Neuropoltics.org This wonderful site offers an array of articles and surveys that link brain structure and brain chemistry to political behavior. Not only are its studies scientifically important, but fascinating to the lay reader. For example; liberal women preferred the smell of coffee while conservative women preferred the smell of newborn baby—offering insight into why conservatives have 41% more children. Professor John Hibbing, along with Prof Alford discovered that conservatism/liberalism is highly heritable. He also wrote my foreword. This video from the National Science Foundation shows some of his more recent work. Here is The Daily Show’s seriously funny take on it. Jonathan Haidt - University of Virginia Jonathan Haidt is a leading researcher in the area of positive psychology and the psychology of morals. The papers in his Research and Publications page are an enlightening and enjoyable read. His presentation on conservative and liberal morals from Enlightenment 2.0 also explains his work well.

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My bibliography contains the full list of books and journal articles. If you don’t subscribe to the professional journals many of them came from, the scientist’s web sites often have copies. Here are a few web sites I found particularly informative, useful, and even entertaining.

Text Box: DVDS: How Art Made the World - by the BBC This documentary shows how art played a pivotal role from the dawn of modern man until today. Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - by PBS Why does Charles Darwin's "dangerous idea" matter more today than ever, and how does it explain the past and predict the future of life on Earth?

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Text Box: Steven Pinker gives a modern primer on genes and psychology, based on his outstanding book The Blank Slate on TED.COM, my hands down, nothing comes close favorite site on the internet. Jonathan Haidt is also there, along with Harvard neurologist Jill Bolte Taylor’s amazing description of what it was like to experience a stroke. Epigenetics—Nova Science Now This 13 minute video describes epigenetics—the portion of our genes that surround and control how our DNA code is expressed is an important and exciting new