Woman surage led to the greatest enfranchisement in the history of the United States.Before World War I, however, surage states remained almost exclusively conned to theAmerican West. The reasons for this pioneering role of the West are still unclear. Studyingthe timing of woman surage adoption...

This paper agrees that a suitably generalized Darwinism may help understandsocioeconomic change, but finds the most publicized generalization by Hodgson and Knudsenunsuitable. To do better, it generalizes the extension of Neo-Darwinism into evolutionarydevelopmental biology (“evo-devo”),...