Good Natured is a book by primatologist Frans de Waal on animal behavior and the evolution of ethics. 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. On the final page, he concludes:

Chapters

1. Darwinian Dilemmas
• Survival of the Unfittest
• Biologicizing Morality
• Calvinist Sociobiology
• A Broader View
• The Invisible Grasping Organ
• Ethology and Ethics
2. Sympathy
• Warm Blood in Cold Waters
• Special Treatment of the Handicapped
• Responses to Injury and Death
• Having Broad Nails
• The Social Mirror
• Lying and Aping Apes
• Simian Sympathy
• A World without Compassion
3. Rank and Order
• A Sense of Social Regularity
• The Monkey's Behind
• Guilt and Shame
• Unruly Youngsters
• The Blushing Primate
• Two Genders, Two Moralities?
• Umbilical versus Confrontational Bonds
• Primus inter Pares
4. Quid pro Quo
• The Less-than-Golden Rule
• Mobile Meals
• At the Circle's Center
• A Concept of Giving
• Testing for Reciprocity
• From Revenge to Justice
5. Getting Along
• The Social Cage
• The Relational Model
• Peacemaking
• Rope Walking
• Baboon Testimony
• Draining the Behavioral Sink
• Community Concern
6. Conclusion
• What Does It Take to Be Moral?
• Floating Pyramids
• A Hole in the Head

Notes

References

• Frans, de Waal (1996). Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals. London: Harvard University Press.

External links

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