[The moral behaviour in human an non-human primates].
The well-known ethologist and Nobel Price Konrad Lorenz said that, according to the evolution, the human mental capacities, and therefore the morality, ought to have had forerunner in the animals which have preceded us: he call them <<ratiomorphe structures>>, i.e. forerunners of our reason. Recently, the social life of non human primates has been intensely studied with the conclusions that there are rules which can be considered as rudiments of a moral behaviour. The so-called <<reciprocal altruism>>, for instance, can be an advantage for others, but at the expense of those who practise it and this can be interpreted as a moral behaviour.
Rubia Vila
Francisco José
FJ
Académico de Número.
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011323:Primates / Q000523:psychology*