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A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists ha

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This volume presents a selection of some of the most exciting new perspectives on moral development that have emerged over the last decade and have transformed