This work confronts seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, and charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. In a godless world, has science unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and aggressive?

This work confronts seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, and charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us. In a godless world, has science unmasked us as creatures fated by our genes to be selfish and aggressive?