Evolution Science and Ethics in the Third Millennium Challenges and Choices for Humankind /

• Main Authors: Cliquet, Robert (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Avramov, Dragana (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Evolutionary biology.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Sociology, general.

The book aims to revitalise the interdisciplinary debate about evolutionary ethics and substantiate the idea that evolution science can provide a rational and robust framework for understanding morality. It also traces pathways for knowledge-based choices to be made about directions for future long-...

Table of Contents:

•   1 Setting the Stage for Reflecting on a Universal Morality
• 2. Origin and Evolution of Morality
• 3. Adaptive and Maladaptive Features of Religious Beliefs as Sources of Morality
• 4. Challenges of Major Secular Ideologies
• 5. Evolution-Based Universal Morality
• 6.- Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges related to Individual Variability
• 7. Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges to Group Variability
• 8. Evolution-Based Ethical Challenges related to Intergenerational Replacement
• 9. Conclusions and Final Reflections
• 10. Bibliography.