The New York Academy of Sciences "Science & the City" presents:

The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Donald W. Pfaff, PhD

Special Discount for NYC Skeptics friends and supporters!

When: February 26, 2008 @ 6PM
Where: New York Academy of Sciences

Several recent books have used theories from anthropology, psychology, and evolutionary biology to argue that our ethical or moral life evolved through natural selection. Now a distinguished neuroscientist takes that proposition a critical step further—arguing that our morality derives from basic brain signals.

Donald Pfaff, head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, gives us the first book describing how ethics may be a hardwired function of the human brain. He solves the mystery of our universal ethical precepts, presenting a rock-solid hypothesis of why humans across time and geography have such similar notions of good and bad, right and wrong.

Reception and book signing to follow.

For more information or to purchase tickets at the discounted price, please view the NYAS flyer.

Please note, this is not an NYC Skeptics fundraising event.