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Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame

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By Christopher Boehm

Web edition: July 13, 2012
Print edition: July 28, 2012; Vol.182 #2 (p. 30)

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An evolutionary anthropologist looks back through human evolution for clues to how groups of hunter-gatherers developed altruism and generous behaviors.

Basic Books, 2012, 418 p., $28.99

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