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From Biology to Consciousness to Morality

. Social animals are provisioned with prosocial orientations that operate to transcend self‐interest. Morality, as used here, describes human versions of such orientations. We explore the evolutionary antecedents of morality in the context of emergentism, giving considerable attention to the biologi...

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Published in:	Zygon 2003-12, Vol.38 (4), p.801-819
Main Authors:	Goodenough, Ursula, Deacon, Terrence W.
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