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The Evolution of Goodness, Empathy and Justice

Lee Dugatkin, University of Louisville

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In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in nature could be the Achilles heel of his theory. Ever since then, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of goodness that has dragged politics, philosophy, and religion into what remains a major question for evolutionary biology.

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Thursday
Jan 29 2015
06:00pm - 06:00pm

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  • Created: 12/12/2014
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