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