The moral animal : the new science of evolutionary psychology /

Every so often the world of ideas is shaken by what the philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn famously dubbed a "paradigm shift." As Robert Wright shows in this pathbreaking book, such a shift is occurring now - one that will change the way people see their lives and the way they choose to li...

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Main Author: Wright, Robert, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1994.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Darwin comes of age
  • Male and female
  • Men and women
  • The marriage market
  • Darwin's marriage
  • The Darwin plan for marital bliss - - Families
  • Darwin and the savages
  • Friends
  • Darwin's conscience
  • Darwin's delay
  • Social status
  • Deception and self-deception
  • Darwin's triumph
  • Darwinian (and Freudian) cynicism
  • Evolution ethics
  • Blaming the victim
  • Darwin gets religion.