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A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation is a 1999 book by the philosopher Peter Singer. In the book, Singer argues that the view of human nature provided by evolutionary science, particularly by evolutionary psychology, is compatible with the ideological framework of the Left and should be incorporated into it.
- Peter Singer
- 1999
Apr 1, 2000 · He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on the evolution of cooperation, can help the left attain its social and political goals. Singer explains why the left originally rejected Darwinian thought and why these reasons are no longer viable.
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Mar 11, 2000 · A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation. Peter Singer. 3.74. 429 ratings63 reviews. In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues that the political left must radically revise its outdated view of human nature.
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Mar 11, 2000 · A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation. Peter Singer. Yale University Press, Mar 11, 2000 - Science - 80 pages. In this ground-breaking book, a renowned bioethicist argues...
- Peter Singer
- Yale University Press, 2000
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Peter Singer's essay, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Co operation, directly takes up the issue of how human nature should be approached from a Left perspective. In particular, he is sharply critical of how the Left has held Darwinism in a certain amount of suspicion and
Jan 1, 1999 · In A Darwinian Left Peter Singer looks at why the left-wing is so contemptuous of these biological theories of behaviour. If humans are indeed born cooperators as research suggests, why does the right claim Darwinism as its own?
Peter Singer, A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999, 70 pp. ISBN 0-300-08323-8, $9.95 (Hb). A Darwinian Left is part of a series of short books on contemporary evolutionary theory which derive from a seminar program at the London School of Economics.
