Synopses & Reviews
This book argues that fears of genetics and evolutionary biology are groundless. Author Neil Levy believes that there is evidence in science that supports the view that the moral capacities with which we have been gifted are capable of reassessing the very processes which gave birth to them. Human nature is humane nature.
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Is our motivation to be moral determined totally by our genes, or are there other factors at work? This is the only book to examine the field in its entirety, starting with Darwin and moving on to explore how morality could have evolved, and what we can learn from the discovery of so-called genes for human behaviour. In a powerful conclusion, Levy argues that while our moral motives are products of evolution, so are our immoral ones. We are only truly human when we rise above our 'selfish genes'.
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Is our motivation to be moral determined by our genes, or are there other factors at work? Neil Levy tackles the complex issues behind this question, addressing the relationship between the often conflicting fields of science and morality to find the middle road between them.