The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
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- Synopsis
- An engrossing, lucid exploration of the origins of human morality that challenges our most basic assumptions, from the world’s leading primatologist Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behaviour is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and “survival of the fittest,” but in fact humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behaviour, and neuroscience, de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals — highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving — just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for everything from politics to office culture.
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307462527
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780771027383, 9780771027376, 9780285638907, 9781400193554, 9781400183555, 9780307407764, 9780307407771
- Publisher:
- Harmony Books
- Date of Addition:
- 12/17/10
- Copyrighted By:
- Frans de Waal
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.