Good Natured

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Title Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals

Author	Frans de Waal
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Released	1996
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	296
ISBN	ISBN 0-674-35660-8

Good Natured is a book by ethologist Frans de Waal on ethics and evolutionary psychology. The book was published in 1996 by Harvard University Press under the full title Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. Much of the book details observations of primate behavior, especially that of chimpanzees and bonobos.

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1. Darwinian Dilemmas
   • Survival of the Unfittest
   • Biologicizing Morality
   • Calvinist Sociobiology
   • A Broader View
   • The Invisible Grasping Organ
   • Ethology and Ethics
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
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
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
5. Getting Along
   • The Social Cage
   • The Relational Model
   • Peacemaking
   • Rope Walking
   • Baboon Testimony
   • Draining the Behavioral Sink
   • Community Concern
6. Conclusion
   • What Does It Take to Be Moral?
   • Floating Pyramids
   • A Hole in the Head