A Natural History of Human Morality

A Natural History of Human Morality
ISBN-10
0674088646
ISBN-13
9780674088641
Category
Psychology
Pages
206
Language
English
Published
2016-01-04
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Michael Tomasello

Description

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent “we”.

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