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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
Evolutionary Theory and Morality
The first step to understanding morality is to understand where it came from. Culture evolved just like our genes do, information that allows us to succeed in our environment is more likely to be transmitted to the next generation. So when we think of morality as being evolved, it's not just genetic capacities to feel prosocial emotions and care about other creatures. It's also a culturally evolved system of norms and institutions which combined to produce human morality.
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