The science of good and evil: why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule

Prologue : one long argument

The origins of morality: Transcendent morality : how evolution ennobles ethics ; Why we are moral : the evolutionary origins of morality ; Why we are immoral : war, violence, and the ignoble savage within ; Master of my fate : making moral choices in a determined universe

A science of provisional ethics: Can we be good without God? : science, religion, and morality ; How we are moral : absolute, relative, and provisional ethics ; How we are immoral : right and wrong and how to tell the difference ; 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.