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Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order
CDDRL, FSI Stanford in the news: The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 22, 2011Evan Goldstein in the Chronicle of Higher Education, reviews the new book of Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Says Goldstein, the book doesn't limit itself to the whole of human history. Rather, it begins in prehuman times and concludes on the eve of the American and French Revolutions, mining the fields of anthropology, archaeology, biology, evolutionary psychology, economics, political science and international relations to establish a framework for understanding the evolution of political institutions. 
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