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It is still considered highly uncool to ascribe a person's
political beliefs, even in part, to that person's biology: hormones,
physiological responses, even brain structures and genes. And no wonder:
Doing so raises all kinds of thorny, non-PC issues involving free will,
determinism, toleration, and much else.
There's just one problem: Published scientific research
keeps going there, with ever increasing audacity (not to mention growing
stacks of data).
The past two weeks have seen not one but two studies
published in scientific journals on the biological underpinnings of
political ideology. And these studies go straight at the role of genes
and the brain in shaping our views, and even our votes.
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