Schubert, Glendon. "The Evolution of Political Science: Paradigms of Physics, Biology, and Politics." Politics and the Life Sciences 1, 2 (February, 1983):97-110.
[Two commentaries and author response, pp. 110-24]
Introduction. Politics is an aspect of both cultural and biological modes of behavior among humans, and by definition, political evolution is in part a component of cultural evolution (Lumsden and Wilson, 1982; Corning, 1973; Masters, 1970). From a biological perspective our concern is with the phylogeny of political science as an academic discipline, which involves the academic ideology of the profession (Schubert, 1967b) and hence the political behavior of political scientists.