Sociobiology

Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 16 (1):112-128 (2012)
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The essay explores the development of sociobiology, its basic tenets, and its contributions to the study of human nature as well as ethics. It insists that Darwinism is more than a biological theory and presents a possibility of interpreting sociobiology as manifesting not the triumph of the selfish gene but, on the contrary, the only way in which the expansion of altruism was possible.

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Vittorio G. Hösle
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