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Author Boehm, Christopher.

Title Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame / Christopher Boehm.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2012]
©2012

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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.
Ethics, Evolutionary.
Virtue.
Virtue.
Altruism.
Altruism.
Shame.
Shame.
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