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Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame
Title:
Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame
Author:
Boehm, Christopher.
ISBN:
9780465020485
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, c2012.
Physical Description:
vii, 418 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Abstract:
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.