Want to Understand Republicans? First Understand Evolution

[image error]I've been meaning for some time to comment on the new University of Nebraska-Lincoln political physiology study, recently published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (free version here). It took a while, but now I've done a major Huffington Post item on the topic, entitled, "Want to Understand Republicans? First Understand Evolution."

First, there is the summary of the research itself. Here is an excerpt:

As the new research suggests, conservatism is largely a defensive...