The Book Prize Index

A Natural History of Human Morality

Michael Tomasello

Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent "we".

ScienceScience · high confidenceScience81 signalsLlm Classifier: Science -> ScienceOpen Library: Evolutionary Ethics -> ScienceOpen Library: Ethics, evolutionary -> ScienceMental Health & PsychologyNatural History & AnimalsScience & DiscoveryFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
PROSE Award for Psychology2017WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    Human moral psychology evolved through two key evolutionary steps: early humans became increasingly ultra-cooperative and ultimately a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent "we".

    Model confidence 78%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    60 / 100 academic

    Trade / academic crossover

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.