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Reflections on the evolutionary basis of morality

Frans De Waal: Primates and philosophers: how morality evolved, edited by Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, 232pp, $17.95 PB

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Copp, D. Reflections on the evolutionary basis of morality. Metascience 27, 231–235 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0278-7

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