On “Huxleys Evolution and Ethics in Sociobiological Perspective” by George C. Williams

Abstract. I concur with Williams that improving human ethics requires full consideration of the biogenetic facts; but I argue that the understanding of biogenetic facts, and of ethics also, can be improved by a fuller view of nature's mechanism for selecting what is fit, a view recently generat...

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Main Author: Burhoe, Ralph W. 1911-1997 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1988
In: Zygon
Year: 1988, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 417-430
Further subjects:B Theology
B Morality
B Selfishness
B Natural Selection
B Human Evolution
B Altruism
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