Welcome to the website for the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS)!

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Mission Statement

The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) is an international and interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned with evolutionary, genetic, and ecological knowledge and its bearing on political behavior, public policy and ethics.

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History of APLS

The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences was founded in 1980 as a as an "organized section" of the American Political Science Association. Soon thereafter, APLS became a free-standing institution, began holding annual scholarly conferences, and launched a scholarly journal, Politics and the Life Sciences.
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The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in governed by an Executive Director and an Executive Council elected by the membership. The publication of Politics and the Life Sciences is managed by an Editor-in Chief (and staff) in cooperation with the Executive Director.  

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