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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?

Modern Wisdom

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What Is Morality?

The loss of the lactase occurred all at the same time and then it was stopped within certain cohorts. We want to understand how these things evolve through biological and cultural evolution. The feelings that we have towards one another like sympathy, caring about other people suffering in and of itself, that's one aspect of morality,. Another aspect of morality is humans have social norms. They have rules that prescribe how we should and shouldn't behave and that we enforce on other people as well.

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