Study: Evolutionary past may determine how we choose leaders
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 15:14
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why did Barack Obama win the US election and did the fact he is over six feet tall influence the voters? The authors of a paper published in Current Biology this month argue that due to 'a hangover from our evolutionary past' factors like age, sex, height and weight play a major part in the determining our choice of leaders.