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Katz, Leonard D, ed. 2000. Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Exeter, UK & Bowling Green, OH: Imprint Academic. ISBN 090784507X.

Stent, Gunther S. (ed.). 1978. Morality as a Biological Phenomenon. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04029-5.


Katz's volume is a prime overview. It is organized around four major papers, each basically summarizing previous books by primatologist Frans de Waal, anthropologist Christopher Boehm, philosopher- biologist duo Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, and games-theorist Brian Skyrms. In addition to providing a healthy cross-disciplinary mix, the volume has 10 commentaries on each primary paper, profiling an informative spectrum of interpretive perspectives.

This book complements an earlier collection edited by Gunther Stent which, while the information is dated and incomplete, still serves as an effective overview of the interdisciplinary landscape -- ranging even to developmental psychology and East Asian perspectives on morality.
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