Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boehm, Christopher
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, c2012.
Subjects:	Ethics, Evolutionary. Virtue. Altruism. Shame.

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.