Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
Basic Books (2010)
| Abstract | Darwin's inner voice -- Living the virtuous life -- Of altruism and free riders -- Knowing our immediate predecessors -- Resurrecting some venerable ancestors -- A natural Garden of Eden -- The positive side of social selection -- Learning morals across the generations -- Work of the moral majority -- Pleistocene ups, downs, and crashes -- Testing the selection-by-reputation hypothesis -- The evolution of morals -- Epilogue: humanity's moral future. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Ethics, Evolutionary Virtue Altruism Shame | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1311.B645 2012 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780465020485 | |||||||||
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