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    <subTitle>why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Shermer, Michael.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Times Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2004</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Prologue : one long argument -- I. The origins of morality -- Transcendent morality : how evolution ennobles ethics -- Why we are moral : the evolutionary origins of morality -- Why we are immoral : war, violence, and the ignoble savage within -- Master of my fate : making moral choices in a determined universe -- II. A science of provisional ethics -- Can we be good without God? : science, religion, and morality -- How we are moral : absolute, relative, and provisional ethics -- How we are immoral : right and wrong and how to tell the difference -- Rise above : tolerance, freedom, and the prospects for humanity -- Appendix I. The devil under form of baboon : the evolution of evolutionary ethics -- Appendix II. Moral and religious universals as a subset of human universals.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Michael Shermer.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-330) and index.</note>
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