The Bookshelf

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Christopher Boehm, Moral Origins, The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (2012)

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Anthropologist Christopher Boehm is interested in this question:  Why did humans evolve a conscience?  Before exploring this question and w...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Martin A. Nowak, SuperCooperators (2011)

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In 2010, Martin Nowak collaborated with biologist Edward O. Wilson (see previous post ) and mathematician Corina Tarnita in publishing an ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)

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We tend to think of evolution in terms of a struggle, a "competitive struggle" in which natural selection favors certain genes, or...
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CSilcox
This blog is not intended to be a series of book reviews, although it might appear that way. My thought was to establish a discussion of ideas, scientific research, and even current events that just happened to follow from the sequence of books I am reading. Another objective is to connect dots: to make connections between what I have just read and what I have read in the past or may read in the future. Most of what comes off The Bookshelf is non-fiction and there tends to be a relationship between the subject I am reading now and what I just completed, but occasionally a work of fiction finds its way off The Bookshelf and perhaps something in the intellectual history of ideas to be shared in this space.
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