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The Origin of Politics: How Evolution and Ideology Shape the Fate of Nations
By Wade, Nicholas
- ISBN
- 9780063379787
- Publisher
- Harper
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Reviewed on July 18, 2025 | Social Sciences
Journalist Wade (A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History) presents a thesis that people are ruled by two systems: nature and politics, and that these two systems are always in conflict. He employs anthropological and sociological tools to examine the history of humanity, from prehistory to the present, to explain the development of political systems in the West. Observations of chimpanzees, which have onl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
