If evolution is survival of the fittest, nature red in tooth and claw, how could animals evolve moral feelings?

如果进化论是讲适者生存，在弱肉强食的自然界，动物怎么能进化出道德情感？

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Findings question the old adage of "nature red in tooth and claw".

所取得的发现对“大自然是残酷和无情的”的古训提出了疑问。

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Indeed, Darwin's Origin of -species by Means of Natural Selection, -published in 1859, seemed to vindicate Tennyson's adage from 20 years -earlier, of "nature red in tooth and claw".

实际上，1859年出版的达尔文著作《物种起源》似乎印证了坦尼森此前二十年的名句——“在尖牙利爪之下，自然是红色的”。

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If evolution is survival of the fittest, nature red in tooth and claw, how could animals evolve moral feelings?

如果进化论是讲适者生存，在弱肉强食的自然界，动物怎么能进化出道德情感？

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It is indeed an irony that, in the area of tropical disease, the wicked drug firms have discovered the value of not-for-profit business at precisely the point when governments are contemplating the idea that the best way forward is the use of incentives more attuned to red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism.

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But they have managed it: even to the point of convincing me, a neoliberal who believes very strongly in capitalism red in tooth and claw.

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