Moral origins
Subtitle: the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame
By: Christopher Boehm
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780465020485; 9780465029198
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Shame; Altruism; Virtue; Evolutionary Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Darwin's inner voice; title: Living the virtuous life; title: Of altruism and free riders; title: Knowing our immediate predecessors; title: Resurrecting some venerable ancestors; title: A natural Garden of Eden; title: The positive side of social selection; title: Learning morals across the generations; title: Work of the moral majority; title: Pleistocene ups, downs, and crashes; title: Testing the selection-by-reputation hypothesis; title: The evolution of morals; title: Epilogue: humanity's moral future.