| Descript |
vii, 418 S |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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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 |
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For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story |
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Altruism
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Etik
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Skamkänslor
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Enkelhet
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Ethics, Evolutionary
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Shame
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Virtue
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| Classmark |
155.7
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Dg
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Dh
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0465020488 |
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9780465020485 |
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9780465029198 (ebook) |
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0465029191 (ebook) |
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