附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-245) and indexes.
Concepts and codes of living -- Cooperation, altruism, reciprocal altruism -- Biological capabilities needed for altruism and morality -- Ideas about morality -- The origins and value of religion -- Other views about the origins of morality and religion -- Social and political consequences of this biological view of morality and religion.
摘要:Biologist Donald Broom argues that morality and the central components of religion are of great value, and presents two central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality.
