text: The Evolution of Morality and Religion: A Biological Perspective: Donald Broom: NHBS
  Books Evolutionary Biology Human Evolution & Anthropology The Evolution of Morality and Religion: A Biological Perspective
  By: Donald Broom200 pages, no illustrationsCambridge University Press
  Add to Hardback | Dec 2003 | #142156 | ISBN: 0521821924
  This book presents 2 central ideas: that morality has a biological foundation and has evolved as a consequence of natural selection, and secondly, that religions are essentially structures underpinning morality. 'it remains an interesting question how the theist - whose religious participation stems primarily from her belief that God really does exist - will want to take Broom's important biological insights and incorporate them into her own account of how god might have provided humans with a sense of morality.' Expository Times Contents
  Introduction; 1. Concepts and codes of living; 2. Cooperation, altruism, reciprocal altruism; 3. Biological capabilities needed for altruism and morality; 4. Ideas about morality; 5. The origins and value of religion; 6. Other views about the origins of morality and religion; 7. Social and political consequences of this biological view of morality and religion; 8. Conclusions; Indexes. Write a review
  Donald M. Broom is Colleen Macleod Professor of Animal Welfare in the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Cambridge. Bestsellers in this subject