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Philosophers used to say that all their endeavours were merely a footnote to Plato. In ethics, this is still largely true.
He who would understand baboon would do more towards metaphysics than John Locke.
Charles Darwin
I am grateful to the Economic and Social Research Council and to the Leverhulme Foundation for funding this reseach through the Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution at University College London.
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Binmore, K. (1998). Evolutionary Ethics. In: Leinfellner, W., Köhler, E. (eds) Game Theory, Experience, Rationality. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook [1997], vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1654-3_22
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