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Evolutionary ethics explores what ethics and morality mean for evolutionary theory. It assumes that ethics and the moral sense of human beings (in particular) is the result of natural selection. Morality emerged as a natural phenomenon during the evolution of human beings—not as a result of rational faculties or divine revelation.
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ten Have, H., Patrão Neves, M. (2021). Evolutionary Ethics. In: Dictionary of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54161-3_246
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