Misconceptions About the Republican Brain, # 2: Are Left and Right an Evolutionary "Adaptation"?

Earlier this week, I debunked a deep misunderstanding of my book, and frankly, of genetics—the idea that political differences might be somehow "hardwired" or "genetically wired."

This is really just an error emerging from a cliched understanding of genes and how they contribute to making us who we are, and you find it popping up everywhere. So I needed to set the record straight, but it is not as if I'm the first one have to respond to this kind of faulty thinking.

Today, I want to take up a m...