The past two decades have seen an increase in the use of theories, data, assumptions and methods of
the biological sciences in studying political phenomena. One of the approaches that combine biology
with political science is genopolitics. The goal of the study was to analyse the basic ontological,
methodological and epistemological assumptions for the reductionism of genopolitics. The results
show that genopolitics assumes methodological reductionism but rejects ontological and
epistemological reductionism. The key consequences of the findings are the irreducibility of political
science to biology and the complementarity of genopolitical explanations and political science
explanations based on culturalism. If my findings prove to be correct, they give rise to the formation
of a hypothesis regarding the anti-reductionist orientation of the contemporary links between political
science and biology. An important step towards confirming or falsifying such a hypothesis will be
exploring the reductionism of contemporary biopolitical approaches such as neuropolitics or
evolutionary political psychology