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Evolutionary ethics : [based on the Field Museum on Natural History spring systematics symposium, held in Chicago on May 12, 1990]
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ISBN: 0791415007 9780791415009 Year: 1993 Volume: *1 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Human evolution, reproduction, and morality
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ISBN: 0306449390 1489913181 1489913165 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York London Plenum Press

The evolution of morality
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ISBN: 0262101122 9780262600729 0262600722 9780262101127 9780262276535 0262276534 1423769821 9781423769828 1282097954 9781282097957 9780262263252 0262263254 9786612097959 Year: 2006 Volume: *5

Biology and the foundation of ethics
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ISBN: 0521559235 0521551005 0511609078 Year: 1999 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology, in particular evolutionary biology, and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are particular facets of human nature that bear directly on social practices. The volume is organised historically beginning with Aristotle and covering such major figures as Hume and Darwin down to the present and the work of Harvard sociobiologist, E. O. Wilson. This is the first book to offer this historical perspective on the relation of biology and ethics, and has been written by some of the leading figures in the history and philosophy of science, whose work stands very much at the cutting edge of these disciplines.

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