Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame

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Basic Books, 1 may 2012 - 432 páginas
The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality.
 

Índice

ONE Darwins Inner Voice
1
TWO Living the Virtuous Life
19
THREE Of Altruism and Free Riders
49
FOUR Knowing Our Immediate Predecessors
75
FIVE Resurrecting Some Venerable Ancestors
89
SIX A Natural Garden of Eden
133
SEVEN The Positive Side of Social Selection
179
EIGHT Learning Morals Across the Generations
213
TEN Pleistocene Ups Downs and Crashes
267
ELEVEN Testing the SelectionbyReputation Hypothesis
293
TWELVE The Evolution of Morals
315
EPILOGUE Humanitys Moral Future
343
Acknowledgments
361
References
385
Index
405
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NINE Work of the Moral Majority
239

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Sobre el autor (2012)

Christopher Boehm is Director of the Jane Goodall Research Center and Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Boehm’s work has been featured in such publications as New Scientist, the New York Times, The Times (London), Natural History, Science News, and in films for National Geographic, Wild Kingdom, and the Discovery Channel. He has lectured widely to groups as diverse as the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the Sante Fe Institute, the Los Angeles and Cincinnati Zoos, and the Naval War College. Boehm is the author of many scientific articles and several previous books, including Hierarchy in the Forest (Harvard). He divides his time between Los Angeles and Santa Fe.

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