ABSTRACT
The desired relationship between political science and the biobehavioral sciences is analogous to the relationship between astronomy on the one hand and physics and chemistry on the other. Political scientists need not argue dogmatically about which patterns of human behavior are uniquely “genetic” and which are uniquely “cultural.” They need simply to recognize the inseparable interdependence of both, and to distinguish those cases where people are behaving in ways characteristic of all human organisms acting in similar circumstances from cases in which their behavior is better described as distinctively individual responses, i.e., behavior different from what might be observed or expected of other individuals responding to similar stimuli in similar circumstances. Moreover, organization of human life through division into political communities has apparently always been the universal rule. Most empirical research literature, virtually all of it considered “behavioral,” concerns “political support.”
