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

Van Pelt Library BJ1311 .B645 2012
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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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