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• Prologue: One Long Argument

I. The Origins of Morality

• 1. Transcendent Morality: How Evolution Ennobles Ethics
• 2. Why We Are Moral: The Evolutionary Origins of Morality
• 3. Why We Are Immoral: War, Violence, and the Ignoble Savage Within
• 4. Master of My Fate: Making Moral Choices in a Determined Universe

II. A Science of Provisional Ethics

• 5. Can We Be Good Without God?: Science, Religion, and Morality
• 6. How We Are Moral: Absolute, Relative, and Provisional Ethics
• 7. How We Are Immoral: Right and Wrong and How to Tell the Difference
• 8. Rise Above: Tolerance, Freedom, and the Prospects for Humanity

• Appendix I: The Devil Under Form of Baboon: The Evolution of Evolutionary Ethics
• Appendix II: Moral and Religious Universals as a Subset of Human Universals
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Illustration Credits
• Acknowledgments
• Index