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Why do as you would be done by?

The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology.

By Peter Singer. Pp.190. ISBN 0-374-15112-1. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1981.) $10.95. To be published in Europe and the Commonwealth on July 30th by Oxford University Press, £6.95.

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  1. University Lecturer in Physical Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and author of The Biology of Human Action (W.H. Freeman, 2nd Edn, 1980).

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Reynolds, V. Why do as you would be done by?. Nature 291, 597–598 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/291597a0

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