Evolutionary Origins of Morality : Cross Disciplinary Perspectives

This title includes four principal papers and a total of 43 peer commentaries on the evolutionary origins of morality.

Jessica Flack and Frans de Waal ask if human morality is the outcome of a continuous development from motives, emotions and social behaviour found in nonhuman animals.

The second paper, by Christopher Boehm, synthesizes social science and biological evidence to support his theory of how our hominid ancestors became moral.

In the third paper, Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson argue that an evolutionary understanding of human nature allows sacrifice for others.

Finally, Brian Skyrms argues that adaptive dynamical game theory must join the social scientist's use of rational choice and classical game theory to explain cooperation.