Human Morality and Sociality Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives

by Boesch, Christophe; Hogh-Olesen, Henrik; Cosmides, Leda; Gat, Azar; Krebs, Dennis; Norenzayan, Ara; Petersen, Michael Bang; Sell, Aron; Tooby, John; de Waal, Frans

• ISBN13: 9780230238008
• ISBN10: 0230238009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This stimulating and thought-provoking reader brings together articles that explore all aspects of human morality and sociality from an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Throughout, six leading figures ask, what are the particular behaviours, social and moral practices and underlying psychological processes that make us human?

Author Biography

HENRIK HOGH-OLESEN is Professor and Head of Department for Social and Personality Psychology at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is also Co-editor of Journal of Anthropological Psychology
 
CHRISTOPHE BOESCH is Professor and Director of the Department of Primatology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

LEDA COSMIDES is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she co-founded and now co-directs the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology
 
DENNIS L. KREBS is Professor of Psychology Simon Frazer University, Vancouver

ARA NORENZAYAN is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

JOHN TOOBY, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he co-founded and now co-directs the UCSB Center for Evolutionary Psychology

FRANS B.M DE WAAL is Professor of Psychology at Emory University, Atlanta and is Director of the Living Links, Center for the Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution

 
 

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vi
Human Mind - Human Kind: An Introduction	p. 1
Born Bad? Evaluating the Case against the Evolution of Morality	p. 13
Morality and Its Relation to Primate Social Instincts	p. 31
Why We Believe: Region as a Human Universal	p. 58
Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation	p. 72
Patterns of Chimpanzee's Intergroup Violence	p. 132
The Causes of War in Natural and Historical Evolution	p. 160
Groups in Mind: The Coalitional Roots of War and Morality	p. 191
Homo Sapiens-Homo Socious: A Comparative Analysis of Human Mind and Kind	p. 235
Index	p. 272
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