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Self-Interest and The Moral Sense: Are We Social or Semi-Social Animals?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Malcolm Owen Slavin  and
Don Greif
Malcolm Owen Slavin
Affiliation:
Tufts University, USA
Don Greif
Affiliation:
New England Conservatory, USA
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Politics and the Life Sciences , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 283 - 285
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