Dominic D. P. Johnson is a Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He received a D. Phil. in biology from the University of Oxford in 2001 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva in 2004. Drawing on both disciplines, he researches and writes on the role of human biology and evolution in understanding the behaviour of individuals, groups, organizations, and states. Johnson held several post-doctoral fellowships in the United States prior to being hired at Edinburgh. He was a National Security Fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University 2002-2003, a Science Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University 2003-2004, a visiting Fellow in the Global Fellows Program of the International Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles 2004-2006, and a Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University, 2004?2007, where he was also a lecturer at Princeton?s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He was also a Society in Science Branco Weiss Fellow from 2004-2009.