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Pigliucci, M. Primates, philosophers and the biological basis of morality: a review of primates and philosophers by Frans De Waal, Princeton University Press, 2006, 200 pp. Biol Philos 22, 611–618 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-007-9068-8
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