Adam Smith published his ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ in 1759, one hundred years before Charles Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species‘ in 1859, which is almost one hundred and fifty years ago and thus we shouldn’t expect Smith to be familiar with MRI experiments showing accelerated blood flow in children’s brains exposed to pictures of people expressing [...]
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