The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Author: Michael Shermer
From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is “a paragon of popularized science and philosophy” The Sun (Baltimore)A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an “evolutionary ethics,” science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or wh….Read More
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