The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule - Hardcover

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Shermer, Michael

 
9780805075205: The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
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ISBN 10: 0805075208 ISBN 13: 9780805075205
Verlag: Times Books, 2004

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The renowned science historian reveals how humans have evolved from social primates into moral primates, exploring the implications of fuzzy logic, fate, free will, and ecology, among other issues affecting the way humans think about moral issues. 30,000 first printing.

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Michael Shermer is the author of The Believing Brain, Why People Believe Weird Things, The Science of Good and Evil, The Mind Of The Market, Why Darwin Matters, Science Friction, How We Believe and other books on the evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the editor of Skeptic.com, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University. He lives in Southern California.

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From The Science of Good and Evil:

Examples of pre-moral sentiments among animals abound. Vampire bats share food and follow the principal of reciprocity. They go out at night in hoards seeking large sleeping mammals from which they can suck blood. Not all are successful, yet all need to eat regularly because of their excessively high metabolism. On average, older experienced bats fail one night in ten, younger inexperienced bats fail one night in three. Their solution is that successful hunters regurgitate blood and share it with their less fortunate comrades, fully expecting reciprocity the next time they come home sans bacon. Of course, the bats are not aware they are being cooperative in any conscious sense. All animals, including human animals, are just trying to survive, and it turns out that cooperation is a good strategy.

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Verlag
Times Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805075208
ISBN 13 
9780805075205
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
350
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