The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code

"A fine achievement."--Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and The Most Good You Can Do

A sweeping psychological history of human goodness -- from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing.

How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. InThe Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael E. McCullough shows why they...