Evolutionary Ethics: What Can We Learn From from the Past?

Zygon 34 (3):435-451 (1999)
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In this paper I look at the question of the derivation of ethics from evolutionary biology, and I do so by considering both historical attempts to make such a derivation and contemporary work.

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10.1111/0591-2385.00225

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