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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Basic Books c2012Description: vii, 418 p. 25 cmISBN:
  • 0-465-02048-8
  • 0-465-02919-1
  • 978-0-465-02048-5
  • 978-0-465-02919-8
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.7 23
Other classification:
  • Do
Contents:
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution
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
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Includes bibliographical references and index

A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution

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

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