This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations.
The book is divided into four sections. The first is an historical introduction to the origin of evolutionary ethics, showing how different evolutionary ethics was a hundred years ago, and how distant Huxley is from most of us now. The second section argues for a sociobiological interpretation of evolutionary ethics. The third section presents the view opposite to that of the second section and rejects the sociobiological interpretation. The fourth section deals objectively with many complex and fundamental issues from diverse perspectives."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
"The authors have a wondrous capacity to recognize problems, to communicate ideas, and to do so with obvious enthusiasm and refined style. In today's jargon, this is a 'good read.' Reader interest is sustained by essays which tease the intellect and by logical argument that coaxes even the most narrowly-read, basic scientist to think about the broader problem." -- David J. Simmons, University of Texas Medical Branch
"With today's general interest in ethics, I think this is timely and important. There are few topics that are as significant as human morality and its basis. "One of the main strengths here is a balance of traditional thinking and modern insights. There is a real value in 'updating' the work of major scholars from the past and contrasting this with today's thinking." -- Barrie Dale, University of OsloBased on the Field Museum of Natural History Spring Systematics Symposium, held in Chicago, May 1990, this volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements and the positions taken on evolutionary ethics, points out the difficulties with the interpretations, and argues that the concept of evolutionary ethics has changed since the time
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