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Author Boehm, Christopher.

Title Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame / Christopher Boehm.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  155.7 BOEHM, CHRISTOPHER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  155.7 BOEHM    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  155.7 BOEHM    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  155.7 BOEHM    Check Shelf
Description vii, 418 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-404) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Ethics, Evolutionary.
Virtue.
Altruism.
Shame.
ISBN 9780465020485 hardcover alkaline paper
0465020488 hardcover alkaline paper
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