Good Natured-The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, 1996
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چکیده
In addition to being human, we pride ourselves on being humane. What a brilliant way of establishing morality as the hallmark of human nature-by adopting our species name for charitable tendencies! Animals obviously cannot be human; could they ever by humane? If this seems an almost-rhetorical question, consider the dilemma for biologists-or anyone else adopting an evolutionary perspective. They would argue that there must at some level be continuity between the behavior of humans and that of other primates. No domain, not even our celebrated morality, can be excluded from this assumption.
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