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• The Ape and the Sushi Master, by Frans de Waal
• The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency, by William Roffschaffer
• Biology and the Foundations of Ethics, edited by Jane Maienschein and Michael Ruse
• Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA, by Richard C. Lewontin
• Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior, by Robert Richards
• Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, by John West [anti-evolution: not recommended]
• The Descent of Man, by Charles Darwin
• The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays, by Kim Sterelny
• The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod
• The Evolution of Morality, by Richard Joyce
• Evolution of the Social Contract, by Brian Skyrms
• Evolutionary Origins of Morality: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives, ed. by Leonard Katz
• Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, by Robert Richardson
• The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, by Charles Darwin
• Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, by Frans de Waal
• Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior, by Christopher Boehm
• Lifelines: Life Beyond the Gene, by Steven Rose
• The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright [not recommended]
• Moral Darwinism: How We Become Hedonists, by Benjamin Wiker and William Demski [anti-evolution: not recommended]
• Moral Psychology., 3 vols., by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
• Morality as a Biological Phenomenon, edited by Gunther Stent
• The Natural Selection of Autonomy, by Bruce Waller
• Not By Genes Alone, by Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd
• Not in Our Genes, by Richard C. Lewontin, Steven Rose & Leon J. Kamin
• An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage, by Malcolm Macmillan
• The Origins of Virtue, by Matt Ridley
• Primates and Philosophers, by Frans de Waal
• The Science of Good and Evil, by Michael Shermer [not recommended]
• The Secret Chain, by Michael Bradie
• Survival of the Prettiest, by Nancy Etcoff [not recommended]
• The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, by Paul Farber
• Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior, by Elliott Sober & David Sloan Wilson