Description |
vii, 418 pages ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution. |
Subject |
Ethics, Evolutionary.
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Ethics, Evolutionary. |
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Virtue.
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Virtue. |
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Altruism.
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Altruism. |
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Shame.
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Shame. |
ISBN |
9780465020485 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0465020488 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780465029198 e-book |
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0465029191 e-book |
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