Ebook: Good natured: the origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals

Prologue -- Chapter 1: Darwinian dilemmas -- Survival of the unfittest -- Biologicizing morality -- Calvinist sociobiology -- A broader view -- The invisible grasping organ -- Ethology and ethics -- Photo essay: closeness -- Chapter 2: Sympathy -- Warm blood in cold waters -- Special treatment of the handicapped -- Responses to injury and death -- Having broad nails -- The social mirror -- Lying and aping apes -- Simian sympathy -- A world without compassion -- Photo essay: cognition and empathy -- Chapter 3: Rank and order -- A sense of social regularity -- The monkey's behind -- Guilt and shame -- Unruly youngsters -- The blushing primate -- Two genders, two moralities? -- Umbilical versus confrontational bonds -- Primus inter Pares -- Chapter 4: Quid pro quo -- The less-than-golden rule -- Mobile meals -- At the circle's center -- A concept of giving -- Testing for reciprocity -- From revenge to justice -- Photo essay: Help from a friend -- Chapter 5: Getting alone -- The social cage -- The relational model -- Peacemaking -- Rope walking -- Baboon testimony -- Draining the behavioral sink -- Community concern -- Photo essay: War and peace -- Chapter 6: Conclusions -- What does it take to be moral? -- Floating pyramids -- A hole in the head -- Notes.;Waal contends that ethical behavior is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.