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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Intelligence, youth and beauty are attractive traits because they signal the ability to bear and raise children.
Chapter 3: Jealousy is many-sided and varies between men and women.
Chapter 4: Cheating on male partners is an evolutionary tactic to secure the best outcomes for children.
Chapter 5: Social rank and wealth strongly influence which gender of child families favor.
Chapter 6: Altruism is self-interested, and morality is largely driven by what other people think of us.
Chapter 7: Human society may be naturally hierarchical, but hierarchy itself isn’t genetic.
Chapter 8: Status is built on strategic alliances rather than on sheer brute force.
Description
The Moral Animal (1994) delves into the fascinating – and occasionally controversial – field of evolutionary psychology to ask what really motivates human behavior. Drawing on the work of Darwin as well as a wealth of anthropological sources, Robert Wright sheds new light on a range of familiar everyday situations in the animal kingdom and our own societies.
Who Should Listen
- Psychologists and keen observers of human behavior
- Biologists and other natural scientists
- Anyone fascinated by the evolution of our species