"A team of political scientists is arguing that people's gut-level reaction to issues like the death penalty, taxes and abortion is strongly influenced by genetic inheritance. The new research builds on a series of studies that indicate that people's general approach to social issues - more conservative or more progressive - is influenced by genes."
Not sure I buy it - as an adoptive parent I'm firmly on the nurture side of the nature-nurture question. But if there's anything to it the implications are really spooky - genocide as the ultimate hardball politics.
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