Article ID: CBB000048908

Moral Darwinism: Ethical evidence for the descent of man (1995)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Keynes, Randal
Darwin, Charles Robert
Alter, Stephen G.
Smith, C. U. M.
Smith, Christopher Upham Murray
Smit, Harry
Concepts
Human evolution
Evolution
Darwinism
Biology
Anthropology
Natural selection
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
Americas
Argentina
South America
Latin America
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