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In utilizing a "bottom up" approach to biological evolution, it is argued that George Modelski's work (2001) concerning "evolutionary world politics" (EWP) fails to consider the microperspective, which is essential for descriptions of important biopolitical issues such as ingroup/outgroup formation, gender biases, & generational change. Though microfactors cannot completely explain the variation inherent in macroprocesses, the latter must be rationalized through the use of microfactors. Finally, Modelski's model fails to consider the role that sociobiology plays within evolutionary thought. Though concluding assumptions cannot yet be made, it is essential that a biobehavioral theory of politics be combined with the structural components inherent in EWP. Only in this manner can the influence of reproductive, economic, & political issues be fully recognized. 34 References. K. Larsen

1. Introduction -- One Conflict and Biology -- 2. Intergroup competition and conflict in animals and man -- 3. Selfish cooperation in social roles -- 4. The biological instability of social equilibria -- Two Sociobiology and Enmity -- 5. The cerebral bridge from family to foe -- 6. The evolutionary foundations of revolution -- 7. Loyalty and aggression in human groups -- 8. Territoriality and threat perceptions in urban humans -- Three 'Primitive' Warfare -- 9. Origin and evolution of 'primitive' warfare -- 10. The Inuit and the evolution of limited group conflict -- 11. Human nature and the function of war in social evolution -- 12. War and peace in primitive human societies -- 13. Primitive war and the Ethnological Inventory Project -- Four The Conflict about Sociobiology -- 14. The sociobiology of conflict and the conflict about sociobiology -- Author index.