Good Natured Explained

Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
Author:	Frans de Waal
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Release Date:	1996
Media Type:	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages:	296
Isbn:	0-674-35660-8
Dewey:	599/.052/4 20
Congress:	BJ1335 .W33 1996
Oclc:	33442348

Good Natured is a book by primatologist Frans de Waal on animal behavior and the evolution of ethics.

Publishing history

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.^[1] On the final page, he concludes:

Notes

1. de Waal 1996, p. 3: "After due attention in this book's first chapter to theories of evolutionary ethics, I will move on to more practical matters. Do animals show behavior that parallels the benevolence as well as the rules and regulations of human moral conduct? … As an ethologist specialized in primatology, I naturally turn most often to the order of animals to which we ourselves belong. … Our ancestors more than likely possessed many of the behavioral tendencies currently found in macaques, baboons, gorillas, chimpanzees, and so on."

References

• Book: Frans, de Waal . Frans de Waal

. Frans de Waal . . 1996 . London . . 0-674-35660-8 .

External links

• Good Natured at the Harvard University Press
• Review by Elena Madison
• Review by William C. McGrew