May 20, 2008

How Did Honor Evolve?

The biology of integrity

By David P. BARASH

The Chronicle Review,Volume 54, Issue 37, Page B11
P.S.- David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington, and a frequent Chronicle contributor. He has never had to turn in any honor-code violators but has on occasion had the unpleasant task of dealing with them.

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