The science of good and evil
Subtitle: why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule
By: Michael Shermer.
Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
Publisher: H. Holt and Co.; Owl Books; Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Ethics, Evolutionary; Evolution (Biology) -- Moral and ethical aspects
Other titles: Why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule.
Notes: "An Owl book."

"Published in hardcover by Times Books in 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : one long argument; title: The origins of morality: Transcendent morality : how evolution ennobles ethics ; Why we are moral : the evolutionary origins of morality ; Why we are immoral : war, violence, and the ignoble savage within ; Master of my fate : making moral choices in a determined universe; title: A science of provisional ethics: Can we be good without God? : science, religion, and morality ; How we are moral : absolute, relative, and provisional ethics ; How we are immoral : right and wrong and how to tell the difference ; Rise above : tolerance, freedom, and the prospects for humanity; title: Appendix I: The devil under form of baboon : the evolution of evolutionary ethics; title: Appendix II: Moral and religious universals as a subset of human universals.