Frans de Waal, “On Atheists and Bonobos” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Evolution of Morality in Primates
In the mid nineties, i wrote a book on the origins of morality. I used to think that basically reciprocity and sympathy was all we had to work with in our moral system. But nowt there's many other findings, for example, this sense of fairness that we test in our primates,. That's not something that we knew anything about in the 19 90s. So what id yo, just to summarize, whar did you use think and what du what do you think now? How? How is your thinking more concretely evolved?
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