The Science of Good and Evil
Subtitle: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Publisher: Owl Books
Published: December 9, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780805077698
Subjects: Science; Life Sciences - Evolution - Human; Ethics (Specific Aspects); Human Evolution; Philosophy; Essays; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Science / Evolution; General; Good & Evil
First sentence: In one of the most starkly honest and existentially penetrating statements ever made by a scientist, Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins opined that "the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."