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A Plea for Human Nature

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Philosophy and History of Science Philosophical Ethics and Theory Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Abstract

Philosophers of biology, such as David Hull and Michael Ghiselin, have argued that the notion of human nature is incompatible with modern evolutionary biology and they have recommended rejecting this notion. In this article, I rebut this argument: I show that an important notion of human nature is compatible with modern evolutionary biology.

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