The Origins of Virtue (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Matt Ridley
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Values, Family or family life, Social life, Ethics, Human behavior, Survivalism, Government, Genetics, Evolution, Cooperation
Matt Ridley’s The Origins of Virtue covers much the same ground that Robert Wright has already explored in The Moral Animal (1994). Both authors summarize the contributions made to the scientific debate about values and their origins by such scholars as Robert Trivers, George Williams, and William Hamilton. Both discuss the relationship between evolutionary strategies and current speculation in the field of game theory. Both interpret a wide range of complex issues so as to make them interesting and understandable to the general reader. The two works are so similar, in...
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