| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Concepts and codes of living -- Cooperation, altruism, reciprocal altruism -- Biological capabilities needed for altruism and morality -- Ideas about morality -- The origins and value of religion -- Other views about the origins of morality and religion -- Social and political consequences of this biological view of morality and religion. |
| Summary |
Biologist Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality. |
| 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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Sociobiology -- Religious aspects.
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Sociobiology -- Religious aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Broom, Donald M. Evolution of morality and religion. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521821924 0521529247 (DLC) 2003055721 (OCoLC)52838627 |
| ISBN |
0511061951 (electronic book) |
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9780511061950 (electronic book) |
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0511170424 (electronic book) |
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9780511170423 (electronic book) |
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0511070411 |
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9780511070419 |
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051161022X (electronic book) |
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9780511610226 (electronic book) |
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0521821924 (Cloth) |
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0521529247 (paperback) |
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9780521821926 |
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