Bibliograph

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

Type

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Moral origins

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

657595623

Responsibility statement

Christopher Boehm

Sub title

the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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