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Book Review: Nothing in Morality Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution

Book Review: Nothing in Morality Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2012. 10(1): 35-38 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review Nothing in Morality Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution A Review of Dennis Krebs, The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account. Oxford University Press: New York, USA, 2011, 320 pp., US$49.95, ISBN 978-0199778232 (hardback). Joshua M. Tybur, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL, Email: j.m.tybur@vu.nl. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) famously opined that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. In The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account, Dennis Krebs argues that the scientific study of morality is as muddled as biology without an evolutionary framework. st Krebs prefaces the book by noting that he is not writing with you, the 21 century reader, in mind. Instead, he is writing for an audience of one: a white-bearded Charles Darwin, who must familiarize himself with 130 years of theoretical developments since he shared his thoughts on morality in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1874). As such, the book offers an excellent summary of many of the epistemological underpinnings of contemporary evolutionary psychology. And, perhaps as a courtesy to Mr. Darwin, it does so without any of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Evolutionary Psychology SAGE

Book Review: Nothing in Morality Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution

Tybur, Joshua M.
Evolutionary Psychology , Volume 10 (1): 4 – Jan 1, 2012
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Evolutionary Psychology www.epjournal.net – 2012. 10(1): 35-38 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Book Review Nothing in Morality Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution A Review of Dennis Krebs, The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account. Oxford University Press: New York, USA, 2011, 320 pp., US$49.95, ISBN 978-0199778232 (hardback). Joshua M. Tybur, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL, Email: j.m.tybur@vu.nl. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1973) famously opined that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. In The Origins of Morality: An Evolutionary Account, Dennis Krebs argues that the scientific study of morality is as muddled as biology without an evolutionary framework. st Krebs prefaces the book by noting that he is not writing with you, the 21 century reader, in mind. Instead, he is writing for an audience of one: a white-bearded Charles Darwin, who must familiarize himself with 130 years of theoretical developments since he shared his thoughts on morality in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1874). As such, the book offers an excellent summary of many of the epistemological underpinnings of contemporary evolutionary psychology. And, perhaps as a courtesy to Mr. Darwin, it does so without any of

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