Evolutionary ethics: What can we learn from the past?

Zygon

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 435-451

  Ruse, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charles TDarwin; Edward O. Wilson; Herbert Spencer; Social Darwinism; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347674245     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00225     Document Type: Article

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