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Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats, finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed to rescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save an unrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.
The examples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that our fellow creatures have powerful impulses toward cooperation, generosity, and fairness. Yet it is commonly held that we Homo sapiens are the only animals with a moral sense. This rigorous and stimulating book challenges that notion and shows the profound connections-the moral continuum-that link humans to many other species. Understanding the moral lives of animals offers new insight into our own.
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Well written, well researched, and forward looking ... The Moral Lives of Animals is eye opening, original, wide-ranging, and ambitious book ... (Psychology Today)
This book challenges readers to absorb new information in an area unfamiliar to most. It is definitely worth the effort and is highly recommended (Library Journal)
Mr. Peterson does develop a provocative case for the existence of a broadly shared evolutionary imperative that under pins human moral instincts... (Wall Street Journal)
[Peterson's] skills as a chronicler of animal goings on are highly developed (American Scholar)
This is a book that could actually change readers' assumptions, opinions and beliefs about the differences between Homo sapiens and other animals... (Kirkus)
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Well written, well researched, and forward looking ... The Moral Lives of Animals is eye opening, original, wide-ranging, and ambitious book ... (Psychology Today)
This book challenges readers to absorb new information in an area unfamiliar to most. It is definitely worth the effort and is highly recommended (Library Journal)
Mr. Peterson does develop a provocative case for the existence of a broadly shared evolutionary imperative that under pins human moral instincts... (Wall Street Journal)
[Peterson's] skills as a chronicler of animal goings on are highly developed (American Scholar)
This is a book that could actually change readers' assumptions, opinions and beliefs about the differences between Homo sapiens and other animals... (Kirkus)
"The Moral Lives of Animals will change the way many think of animals, and it will vindicate what others have always known intuitively. It deserves to be an instant bestseller."-Jane Goodall
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- Publication date2013
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