
Evolution by Natural Selection and Ethics
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of contents
- What in evolution has ethical implications?
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The question: What in evolution has ethical implications?
- 2 General considerations
- 2.1 Consciousness
- 2.2 Belief
- 2.3 Discrimination
- 2.4 The naturalistic fallacy
- 2.5 Axiomatic grounding for ethics
- 2.6 Natural selection, including sexual selection
- 2.6.1 Utility
- 2.6.2 Optimization
- 2.7 Inference from historical and model evidence
- 3 Examples
- 3.1 Ageing
- 3.2 Altruism
- 3.3 Competition
- 3.4 Extinction
- 3.5 Suicide
- 3.6 Reciprocal mutualism
- 3.6.1 Co-operation
- 3.7 Cheating
- 3.7.1 Mimicry
- 3.8 Size
- 3.9 Dollo's Law
- 3.10 Multiple pathways to the same constrained objective
- 3.11 Positive attributes and flaws
- 3.12 'Seven deadly sins'
- 3.12.1 Avarice
- 3.12.2 Pride
- 3.12.3 Lust
- 3.12.3.1 Sexuality
- 3.12.4 Wrath
- 3.12.4.1 Aggression
- 3.12.5 Sloth
- 3.12.6 Gluttony
- 3.12.6.1 Addiction
- 3.12.7 Jealousy and envy
- 3.12.7.1 'Spite' in other animals than humans
- 3.13 Genetical defects
- 3.13.1 'Hopeful monsters'
- 3.14 Chomsky's theory of language: a single mutation, not something that evolved
- 3.15 Eugenics
- 3.16 Xenophobia and abjection
- 3.17 Equity
- 3.18 Reproduction
- 3.18.1 Non-breeding behaviour
- 3.19 Waste
- 3.20 Parasitism
- 3.21 Laughter
- 3.22 Immortality
- 4 Lessons
- 4.1 The Fall
- 4.2 'Original sin'
- 4.3 How is it that we need Theodicy?
- 4.4 Free will
- 4.5 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- The Morality of Evolutionary Theory Ferdinand Brunetière
- Biographical note on Brunetière
- References
- Index
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