Stefano Parmigiani

Frederick S. Vom Saal

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- PART 1: HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INFANTICIDE AND PARENTAL CARE IN HUMANS -- CHAPTER 1 Fitness Tradeoffs in the History and Evolution of Delegated Mothering With Special Reference to Wet-nursing, Abandonment and Infanticide -- CHAPTER 2 The Role of Social, Religious and Medical Practices in the Neglect, Abuse, Abandonment and Killing of Infants

Infanticide and Parental Care

Telmo Pievani

Patricia Smith Churchland

Morality is often defined in opposition to the natural "instincts," or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behavior, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian position that moral behavior is continuous with the social behavior of animals, and most likely evolved to enhance the cooperativeness of society. In this view, morality is part of human nature rather than its opposite. This interdisciplinary volume debates the origin and working of human morality within the context of science as well as religion and philosophy.

Stefano Parmigiani

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