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evolutionary ethics

evolutionary ethics noun: ethics - the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct - that is informed yet not uniquely determined by sociobiology - the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.

Noun

evolutionary ethics (uncountable)

  1. Ethics - the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct - that is informed yet not uniquely determined by sociobiology - the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.

Questions about evolutionary ethics

What does evolutionary ethics mean?
Evolutionary ethics means ethics - the study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct - that is informed yet not uniquely determined by sociobiology - the application of the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of social behaviour in both humans and animals.
What part of speech is evolutionary ethics?
Evolutionary ethics is a noun.

Words near evolutionary ethics in the dictionary

  1. evolutionary biology
  2. evolutionary creationism
  3. evolutionary creationist
  4. evolutionary creationists
  5. evolutionary developmental biology
  6. evolutionary ethics
  7. evolutionary genetics
  8. evolutionary psychology
  9. evolutionary stable strategy
  10. evolutionary taxonomist
  11. evolutionary taxonomists

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