Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong

A Harvard scientist illuminates the biological basis for human morality in this groundbreaking book.

With the diversity of moral attitudes found across cultures around the globe, it is easy to assume that moral perspectives are socially developed—a matter of nurture rather than nature. But in Moral Minds, Marc Hauser presents compelling evidence to the contrary, and offers a revolutionary new theory: that humans have evolved a universal moral instinct.

Hauser argues that certain biological...