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Can biology—especially evolutionary biology—help explain ethics, and if so, can science influence ethics and help set new norms? If science can, should science do? Topics range from issues of sex/gender to punishment for crime.
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Quayshawn Spencer is an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy at University of San Francisco. He holds a BA in chemistry and an MA in biology from Cornell University. He earned his PhD and was a Ford Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University.
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