Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame
Christopher Boehm (Author)
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution
vii, 418 pages ; 25 cm
9780465020485, 0465020488
657595623
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