In the fifth chapter of his 2007 book Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives, David Sloan Wilson writes:
“It turns out that something very similar to my desert-island thought experiment has been performed on chickens by a poultry scientist named William Muir.”
That probably sounds odd.
It will likely sound even odder when you find out what the desert-island thought experiment is: a set of three hypothetical situations to explore human morality through the lens of evolution.
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Perspective and the Past