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050 4 $aBJ1311$b.S48 2005
092 $a171.7$bSHE, 2005
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100 1 $aShermer, Michael.
245 14 $aThe science of good and evil :$bwhy people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule /$cMichael Shermer.
246 30 $aWhy people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule
250 $a1st Owl Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bH. Holt and Co.,$c2005.
300 $axii, 350 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"An Owl book."
500 $a"Published in hardcover by Times Books in 2004"--T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : one long argument -- The origins of morality: Transcendent morality : how evolution ennobles ethics ; Why we are moral : the evolutionary origins of morality ; Why we are immoral : war, violence, and the ignoble savage within ; Master of my fate : making moral choices in a determined universe -- A science of provisional ethics: Can we be good without God? : science, religion, and morality ; How we are moral : absolute, relative, and provisional ethics ; How we are immoral : right and wrong and how to tell the difference ; Rise above : tolerance, freedom, and the prospects for humanity -- Appendix I: The devil under form of baboon : the evolution of evolutionary ethics -- Appendix II: Moral and religious universals as a subset of human universals.
650 0 $aEthics, Evolutionary.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$xMoral and ethical aspects.
994 $aC0$bXIM