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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule Paper back - 2005
by Michael Shermer
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Psychologist and science historian Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates, how and why morality motivates the human animal, and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence.
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- Title The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
- Author Michael Shermer
- Binding Paper Back
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 237912
- ISBN 9780805077698 / 0805077693
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.4 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.72 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Evolutionary, Evolution (Biology) - Moral and ethical
- Dewey Decimal Code 171.7
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In one of the most starkly honest and existentially penetrating statements ever made by a scientist, Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins opined that "the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."