How Did Morality Originate?
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The main thing that prospective readers of a book want to know is whether the book is any good. Christopher Boehm’s book, Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame, is definitely a good read. It is interesting, informative, insightful, full of compelling examples, well-documented, and well-written, though somewhat repetitive in places. We recommend it to anyone interested in moral origins. That said, we would not earn our stripes as reviewers if we did not question some aspects of Boehm’s account of the origins of morality.
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