Societies: Evolutionary and Comparative
β Talcott Parsons
π Library
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1966
π Prentice-Hall
π English
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Human morality and sociality: evolutionary and comparative perspectives
β Scribed by HΓΈgh-Olesen, Henrik
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 281
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 behaviors, social and moral practices and underlying psychological processes that make us human?
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 7
1 Human Mind β Human Kind: An Introduction......Page 8
2 Born Bad? Evaluating the Case against the Evolution of Morality......Page 20
3 Morality and Its Relation to Primate Social Instincts......Page 38
4 Why We Believe: Religion as a Human Universal......Page 65
5 Evolutionary Psychology and Criminal Justice: A Recalibrational Theory of Punishment and Reconciliation......Page 79
6 Patterns of Chimpanzeeβs Intergroup Violence......Page 139
7 The Causes of War in Natural and Historical Evolution......Page 167
8 Groups in Mind: The Coalitional Roots of War and Morality......Page 198
9 Homo Sapiens β Homo Socious: A Comparative Analysis of Human Mind and Kind......Page 242
L......Page 280
X......Page 281
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