This interdisciplinary collection presents novel theories includes provocative re-workings of
longstanding arguments and offers a healthy cross-pollination of ideas to the morality
literature. Structures functions and content of morality are reconsidered as cultural
religious and political components are added to the standard biological environmental mix.
Innovative concepts such as the Periodic Table of Ethics and evidence for morality in non-human
species illuminate areas for further discussion and research. And some of the book¿s
contributors question premises we hold dear such as morality as a product of reason the
existence of moral truths and the motto ¿life is good.¿ Highlights of the coverage: The
tripartite theory of Machiavellian morality: judgment influence and conscience as distinct
moral adaptations. Prosocial morality from a biological cultural and developmental
perspective. The containment problem and the evolutionary debunking of morality. A comparative
perspective on the evolution of moral behavior. A moral guide to depravity:
religiously-motivated violence and sexual selection. Game theory and the strategic logic of
moral intuitions. The Evolution of Morality makes a stimulating supplementary text for advanced
undergraduate and graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences particularly in psychology
biology anthropology sociology political science religious studies and philosophy
