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The paradox of the missing function: How similar is moral mutualism to biofunctional understanding?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2013

Asghar Iran-Nejad  and
Fareed Bordbar
Asghar Iran-Nejad
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. airannej@bamaed.ua.edufareed.bordbar@gmail.com
Fareed Bordbar
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. airannej@bamaed.ua.edufareed.bordbar@gmail.com
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Abstract

We explain here how the natural selection theory of people's mutualistic sense of fairness and the biofunctional theory of human understanding are made for each other. We welcome the stage that the target article has already set for this convergence, and invite the authors to consider moving the two independently developed approaches a step closer to the natural selection level of biofunctional understanding.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 93 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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