Moral animal

Robert Wright (river in 1957) is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, a brilliant journalist, the author of several scientific bestseller, each of whom caused hot discussions. His book “Moral Animal”, translated into 12 languages ​​and recognized as one of the best books of 1994, instantly attracted attention and divided the reader audience into two irreconcilable camps.
There is an animal endowed with reason - this fact is difficult To argue. At the same time, it is generally accepted that in a civilized society a reasonable beginning prevails over the animal. But is it really so? What is human morality that has undergone radical changes over many centuries? How are altruism and the struggle for survival, sexual revolution and the theory of the evolution of Darwin? Honor, conscience, friendship, nobility - are all this really only words that a bare instinct is hiding?
Analyzing these issues and witty using the biography of Charles Darwin and his “Origin of the Views” and the famous work of Franus de Valya “Politics at Shimpanze” as an example, Robert Wright comes to very curious conclusions