As an addendum to my last post, I
can recommend three recent collections of scientific papers by a large number
of scholars that will provide anyone with a solid foundation for reading and
exploring biopolitical science.
First and most important, The
Princeton Guide to Evolution, ed. by Jonathan B. Lobos. This is easily the best general guides to an
academic subject that I have ever seen.
It is extraordinarily broad and at the same time thorough in each of its
chapters. It is generally accessible to
non-specialists, though it may require some attentive reading.
Second, Chimpanzees and Human
Evolution, edited by Muller, Wrangham, and Pilbeam. If you want to enjoy the benefits of the
books I mentioned in my last post, just look up the author’s contributions to
this one. Both volumes were published as
recently as 2017.
Third, The Evolution of Primate
Societies, edited by… everyone. It’s
the most dated of the volumes, being published as far back as 2012. If you want to know what is natural in human
social behavior, the best way is to consider our nearest relatives. To read this book is to swim in that sea of
questions.
Finally, I would be remiss not to
recommend one of the first general guides to biopolitical science: Handbook of
Biology and Politics, ed. by Steven A. Peterson and Albert Sommit. If biology and politics overlap anywhere in the
realm of thought, this book will have a chapter on it. I would also be remiss not to point out that
the author of Chapter 13, “Political Ethics and Biology,” is very wise.
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