The Kindness of Strangers : how a selfish ape invented a new moral code

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The Kindness of Strangers : how a selfish ape invented a new moral code

McCullough, Michael E. - Personal Name;

This book is about one of the great zoological wonders of the world. No, it's not about the tears of the elephant, the smile of the dolphin, or the politics of the chimpanzee. It is about a scrawny, brainy ape with the habit of helping strangers, at times even risking life and limb to do so. It's about you and me, and how we treat everybody else. In short, it answers one of the biggest questions science has ever faced: Why do we give a damn about the welfare of strangers? Ever since Darwin, a legion of social scientists, biologists, and other scholars have attempted to explain human morality in terms of evolutionary biology-in on our modern parlance, they have looked for altruism in our genes. And yet, whether they subscribe to kin selection or group selection or something in between, they have failed to explain where morality comes from or how it works. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough offers a new answer: Looking for morality in our biology is a mistake, and morality, like any new technology, had to be discovered, refined, and adopted.

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Series Title: -
Call Number: 177.7
Publisher: New York : Basic Books., 2020
Collation: vii, 358 p. : ill, 22 cm.
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 9780465064748 (hbk.)
Classification: 177.7
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Edition: 1st ed.
Subject(s): Social Psychology
Kindness
Evolution (Biology)
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