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Is that all there is? Or is chimpanzees group hunt “fair” enough?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2020

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Angelica Kaufmann*
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Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002Israel. angelica.kaufmann@gmail.comhttps://biu.academia.edu/AngelicaKaufmann
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Abstract

Tomasello claims that we lack convincing evidence that nonhuman animals manifest a sense of moral obligation (i.e., the concept of fairness) in their group activities. The philosophical analysis of distinctive evidence from ethology, namely group hunting practices among chimpanzees, can help the author appreciate the distinctive character of this behaviour as a display of fairness put into practice.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e74
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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