Reading Guide 5: Darwin, Huxley, Dawkins on Ethics and Society

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Darwin's work in biology raises the possibility that ethics may be given an evolutionary explanation: perhaps morality serves not the happiness of mankind, as in the utilitarian theory, but the survival of the human species

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