Description “Could an ethical theory ever play a substantial evidential role in a scientific argument for an empirical hypothesis? In The descent of man, Darwin includes an extended discussion of the nature of human morality, and the ethical theory which he sketches is not simply developed as an interesting ramification of his theory of evolution, but is used as a key part of his evidence for human descent from animal ancestors. Darwin must rebut the argument that, because of our moral nature, humans are essentially different in kind from other animals and so had to have had a different origin.” From the abstract.
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Smit, Harry;
(2010)
Darwin's Rehabilitation of Teleology versus Williams' Replacement of Teleology by Natural Selection
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Day, Matthew;
(2008)
Godless Savages and Superstitious Dogs: Charles Darwin, Imperial Ethnography, and the Problem of Human Uniqueness
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Darwin, Charles;
(1981)
The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. With an introduction by Bonner, John Tyler and May, Robert M.
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Alter, Stephen G.;
(2007)
Race, Language, and Mental Evolution in Darwin's Descent of Man
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Darwin, Charles;
(1987)
A concordance to Darwin's The descent of man, and Selection in relation to sex. Edited by Barrett, Paul H., Donald J. Weinshank, Paul Ruhlen, and Stephan J. Ozminski
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Ruse, Michael;
(2009)
Charles Darwin on Human Evolution
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Novoa, Adriana;
Levine, Alex;
(2010)
From Man to Ape: Darwinism in Argentina, 1870--1920
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Greenwood, John D.;
(2008)
Mechanism, Purpose and Progress: Darwin and Early American Psychology
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Martínez-Contreras, Jorge;
(2010)
Darwin's Apes and “Savages”
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Alter, Stephen G.;
(2008)
Darwin and the Linguists: The Coevolution of Mind and Language, Part 2. The Language--Thought Relationship
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Dover, Gabriel;
(2000)
Dear Mr. Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature
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Lucas, Peter;
(2007)
Charles Darwin, “Little Dawkins” and the Platycnemic Yale Men: Introducing a Bioarchaeological Tale of the Descent of Man
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Richter, Virginia;
(2011)
Literature after Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction, 1859--1939
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Smith, C. U. M.;
(2010)
Darwin's Unsolved Problem: The Place of Consciousness in an Evolutionary World
(/isis/citation/CBB001034933/)
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Canseco, Juan;
(2006)
Conflitto e confronto: l'evoluzionismo materialista di Darwin e l'evoluzionismo spiritualista di Wallace
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Millstein, Roberta L.;
(2012)
Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
(/isis/citation/CBB001211288/)
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Cooke, Kathy J.;
(1990)
Darwin on man in the Origin of species: An addendum to the Bajema-Bowler debate
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Herbert, Sandra;
(1974)
The place of man in the development of Darwin's theory of transmutation
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Keynes, Randal;
(2001)
Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, his daughter and human evolution
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Keynes, Randal;
(2002)
Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution
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