The evolution of moral dispositions in the human species

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 907, Issue , 2000, Pages 132-148

  Krebs, Dennis L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; EVOLUTION; GAME; HUMAN; MORALITY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 0034061881     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06620.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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