And they lay out their case that this is so in a paper just published in Evolution and Human Behavior.

ECONOMIST: Evolution and politics

That, at least, is the contention of David Puts, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, in an upcoming paper in Evolution and Human Behavior.

ECONOMIST: Masculine traits

Their results, just published in Evolution and Human Behavior, were the same for all three of the elections they looked at the 2004 and 2008 presidential contests, and the 2006 mid-terms (in which the Democrats made big gains in both houses of Congress).

ECONOMIST: Pornography and politics

Chalk it up to the evolution of the performing arts and human behavior.

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