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Survival of the fittest? Survival of the nicest!

by lorenz on Jun 10, 2004 in Us and Them, persons and theories

Washington University in St. Louis

Are altruism and morality artificial outgrowths of culture, created by humans to maintain social order? Or is there, instead, a biological foundation to ethical behavior? "We believe that, instead of being genetically predisposed to competition and aggression, humans have a biological foundation for unselfish social interaction," sazs Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., a professor of anthropology >>continue (Link updated)

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