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Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame / Christopher Boehm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boehm, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics, Evolutionary.
- Virtue.
- Altruism.
- Shame.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 418 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality.
- 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
- Humanity's moral future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780465020485
- 0465020488
- 9780465029198
- 0465029191
- OCLC:
- 657595623
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