Document Sheds Light on Investigation at Harvard

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The evolutionary psychologist Marc D. Hauser

The evolutionary psychologist Marc D. HauserGaye Gerard, Getty Images

Ever since word got out that a prominent Harvard University researcher was on leave after an investigation into academic wrongdoing, a key question has remained unanswered: What, exactly, did he do?

The researcher himself, Marc D. Hauser, isn’t talking. The usually quotable Mr. Hauser, a psychology professor and director of Harvard’s Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, is the author of Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (Ecco, 2006) and is at work on a forthcoming book titled “Evilicious: Why We Evolved a Taste for Being Bad.” He has been voted one of the university’s most popular professors.

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Tom Bartlett is a senior writer who covers science and ideas. Follow him on Twitter @tebartl.