Elisabeth A Lloyd, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Stephen J Crowley, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Published online: May 2003
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0003453
Current scientific attempts to characterize human nature have roots in a philosophic view of kinds that is inapplicable to any species in the wake of Darwin's work on evolution by natural selection.
Keywords: evolution; philosophy; evolutionary psychology; behavioural ethology; human nature
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