This stimulating reader addresses all aspects of human morality and sociality from an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Authored by six leading researchers, it discusses both the 'good' and 'bad' sides of humanity and delves into the particular behaviours, social and moral practices, and underlying psychological processes that make us human.

Every once in a while, we have to reconsider the perennial questions concerning human nature: What are the special human behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures that make us particularly human?

The field of evolution, psychology and cognitive science is the most expanding, inter-disciplinary area of this field for the time being, uniting different sciences under the same evolutionary paradigm and keeping them occupied by the same eternal questions stated above.

Relevant data and theoretical considerations are piling up, but an overview is needed. To facilitate this a large inter-disciplinary conference entitled “Human Mind — Human Kind” was held at Aarhus University, Denmark.

The studies in the present volume fall into three well defined sections:

1) Evolution and Cognition— Comparative and Developmental Perspectives,
2) Human Sociality, Morality and Religiosity,
3) Human Sexuality and Mating Strategies.

What is it to be human? How do we relate to the world, to each other and to our selves-in
everyday life and when faced with life's big questions?

In this book, the author develops a general theoretical model that may offer a better understanding of underlying principles of human behaviour.