| Description |
vii, 418 p. ; 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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Virtue.
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Altruism.
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Shame.
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| ISBN |
9780465020485 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0465020488 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780465029198 (e-book) |
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0465029191 (e-book) |
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