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Our Political Nature
- The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
The first book to tell the natural history of political orientations.
Our Political Nature is the first book to reveal the hidden roots of our most deeply held moral values. It shows how political orientations across space and time arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits. These clusters entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests.
As this book explains, our political personalities also influence our likely choice of a mate, and shape society's larger reproductive patterns. Most importantly of all, it tells the evolutionary stories of these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological conflicts.
Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and personalities. For instance, listeners will meet Glenn Beck and Hugo Chavez and come to understand the underlying evolutionary forces they represent. By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today.
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- Newty1977
- 20-07-17
Best Book I've Listened To
A truly fascinating and eye opening insight into he evolutionary biology that has an influence on all of us. Draws on a huge body of research to frame the understanding
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- Sylvester Jønsson
- 18-06-21
hodgepodge pseudoscience
This book is bad it’s a bad book.
When you mash up bible verses, animal studies and fun statistic from yougov you are not making any scientific arguments so this book can only be used as a good laugh and not as a viable source for any claims regarding political social or biological science!!!!!
Supposedly this book should be about humans political nature. So why we talking about siblings wanting to kill each other, and how chimpanzee is amazing with one another? Hooked on for specific persons in popular and political media to give the illusion that this book is relevant and a special note to the The voice of this audiobook.. stop trying to pronounce foreign words you clearly have no idea how to pronounce words in German, Arabic or Indian… so do us all the favour and just stick to the American heavy accent I mean Google translate could have done a better job pronouncing these foreign words. So yeah a book for a good laugh but deafly not more than that
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