📚 Evolutionary Ethics

Books with evolutionary ethics on their catalogue record, first published between 1869 and 2013, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject evolutionary ethics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 360 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Этика	Peter Kropotkin	1923	54
	The data of ethics	Herbert Spencer	1879	28
	The principles of ethics	Herbert Spencer	1892	25
	Morals in evolution	L. T. Hobhouse	1906	20
	Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays	Thomas Henry Huxley	1905	15
	Evolutional ethics and animal psychology	E. P. Evans	1897	14
	The elements of social justice	L. T. Hobhouse	1922	14
	The ethical import of Darwinism	Jacob Gould Schurman	1887	13
	The science of ethics	Sir Leslie Stephen	1882	11
	An essay on morals	Philip Wylie	1943	11
	Moral Minds	Marc Hauser	2006	11
	The Evolution of Morality and Religion	Donald M. Broom	2003	8
	The origin and development of the moral ideas	Edward Westermarck	1906	7
	Grounded ethics	Max Hocutt	2000	7
	The Bonobo and the Atheist	Frans de Waal	2013	7
	The Evolution Of Morality	C. Staniland Wake	1878	6
	Ethical naturalism	Susana Nuccetelli	2011	6
	Progressive morality	Fowler, Thomas	1884	5
	The origin and development of the moral ideas	Edward Westermarck	1906	5
	The Cave Man's Legacy	E. Hanbury Hankin	1928	5
	The ethical animal	Conrad H. Waddington	1960	5
	Physical Ethics Or, The Science Of Action	Alfred Barratt	1869	4
	On The Ethics Of Naturalism	William Ritchie Sorley	1885	4
	Gospels of yesterday	Watson, Robert Alexander	1888	4
	The crisis in morals	James Thompson Bixby	1891	4
	Permanence and change	Kenneth Burke	1935	4
	Darwin and the modern world view	Greene, John C.	1961	4
	Evolutionary ethics	Antony Flew	1967	4
	Natural ethical facts	William D. Casebeer	2003	4
	Morals	Guillaume Léonce Duprat	1903	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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