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

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

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Main Author: Boehm, Christopher
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, c2012.
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505 0 |a 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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