The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame
by
Christopher Boehm
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is "selfish," do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue and shame to justify that altruism? Many...