The Pursuit of Kindness

An Evolutionary History of Human Nature

The Pursuit of Kindness
Eamonn Toland
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Hardback
h230 x 155mm - 256pg
27 May 2021 IRE
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9781912589210
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Richard Dawkins once wrote, "Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. "He was wrong. The Pursuit of Kindness is an evolutionary history of human nature which provides compelling evidence from biology, psychology and archaeology that for 95 percent of the time we have walked the earth, survival of the fittest for our species has meant survival of the kindest. Archaeological evidence from the upper Paleolithic shows that inter-group conflict was minimal, and population density was very low. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors probably had high rates of punitive homicide, but a rudimentary moral sense is hard-wired in us all, even though it is very influenced by environmental factors thereafter. The era of Brexit and Trump has laid bare how quickly cultural norms of tolerance that persisted for hundreds of years can be rapidly overturned when disaster strikes. People blame-storm and scapegoat immigrants, religious minorities and social misfits for all of society' s ills. The author argues that we need to recognise what we have in common in order to nurture the pursuit of kindness.
Eamonn Toland read Modern History and Economics at St Hugh' s College, Oxford, where he received a Lawlor Foundation Scholarship. After graduation he worked as a management consultant with Accenture and McKinsey & Co. , and as an entrepreneur and business executive. In addition to being a media spokesman for Accenture, he has written articles for the London Times and Telegraph, appeared in television shows and documentaries, and been a key speaker at numerous conferences. Together with his wife and son, he divides his time between Dublin, London and New York. The Pursuit of Kindness is his first book.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781912589210
Published: 27 May 2021
Published In: Ireland
Imprint: Liberties Press
Publisher: Liberties Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 230mm
Width: 155mm
Pages: 256

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