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The Age of Empathy and The Bonobo and the Atheist

Both reciprocity and empathy – the two pillars upon which morality is built—are found in bonobos, apes and other social animals. But only humans are able to “abstract” the value and extend the behavioral constraints of “one-on-one” morality to the larger society, including strangers.

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