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The legal, political, and social meaning of the work of Charles Darwin has been claimed as resident to conservative and liberal homes alike. Peter Singer’s unique admixture of personal liberal politics and what may look to be an extremely conservative philosophy of nature

expose some over-simplicity in traditional ‘right’ and ‘left’ categories. In ‘‘Recovering

the Left from Darwin in the 21st Century’’, Steve Fuller provides us with insightful historical

and sociological contexts for Singer’s challenges. In this article, Kirk Junker takes one aspect of the trajectory ‘the notion of natural rights’ and examines their social construction, linguistic maintenance, and legal …