I knew that.

A new study by London School of Economics management professor Satoshi Kanazawa just published in Social Psychology Quarterly and explained in ScienceDaily posted at Reason.com.

Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they never meet or interact with, is evolutionarily novel.

Hat tip Naked Capitalism, which, according to the WSJ is one of the 10 Wall Street blogs you should bookmark now.