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A sweeping psychological history of human goodness from the foundations of evolution to the modern political and social challenges humanity is now facing.

How did humans, a species of self-centered apes, come to care about others? Since Darwin, scientists have tried to answer this question using evolutionary theory. In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough shows why they have failed and offers a new explanation instead. From the moment nomadic humans first settled down until the aftermath of the Second World War, our species has confronted repeated crises that we could only survive by changing our behavior. As McCullough argues, these choices werent enabled by an evolved moral sense, but with moral invention-driven not by evolutions dictates but by reason.
Todays challenges climate change, mass migration, nationalism are some of humanitys greatest yet. In revealing how past crises shaped the...