Boehm, Christopher.

Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame / Christopher Boehm. - New York : Basic Books, c2012. - vii, 418 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780465020485 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0465020488 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2011048896


Ethics, Evolutionary.
Virtue.
Altruism.
Shame.

BJ1311 / .B645 2012

155.7