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1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Chapter 1: Darwinian dilemmas -- Survival of the unfittest -- Biologicizing morality -- Calvinist sociobiology -- A broader view -- The invisible grasping organ -- Ethology and ethics -- Photo essay: closeness -- Chapter 2: Sympathy -- Warm blood in cold waters -- Special treatment of the handicapped -- Responses to injury and death -- Having broad nails -- The social mirror -- Lying and aping apes -- Simian sympathy -- A world without compassion -- Photo essay: cognition and empathy -- Chapter 3: Rank and order -- A sense of social regularity -- The monkey's behind -- Guilt and shame -- Unruly youngsters -- The blushing primate -- Two genders, two moralities? -- Umbilical versus confrontational bonds -- Primus intter Pares -- Chapter 4: Quid pro quo -- The less-than-golden rule -- Mobile meals -- At the circle's center -- A concept of giving -- Testing for reciprocity -- From revenge to justice -- Photo essay: Help from a friend -- Chapter 5: Getting alone -- The social cage -- The relational model -- Peacemaking -- Rope walking -- Baboon testimony -- Draining the behavioral sink -- Community concern -- Photo essay: War and peace -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- What does it take to be moral? -- Floating pyramids -- A hole in the head -- Notes. |
| Summary |
Waal shows how ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethics, Evolutionary.
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Ethics, Evolutionary. |
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Animal behavior.
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Animal behavior. |
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Human behavior.
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Human behavior. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Waal, F.B.M. de (Frans B.M.), 1948- Good natured. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996 (DLC) 95046032 (OCoLC)33442348 |
| ISBN |
9780674033177 (electronic book) |
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0674033175 (electronic book) |
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0674356608 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674356603 (alkaline paper) |
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