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Book Review Essay: Is Ethnic Globalism Adaptive for Americans? Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002: 223 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3096-2. Pbk $25, Hdbk $60

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Salter, F.K. Book Review Essay: Is Ethnic Globalism Adaptive for Americans? Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom, by Paul H. Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002: 223 pp. ISBN 0-8135-3096-2. Pbk $25, Hdbk $60. Population and Environment 25, 501–527 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:POEN.0000036932.52792.5c

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