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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
Is Individual Morality Adaptable?
In what ways is morality adaptive? Yeah, well some morality is adaptive in that it enables cooperation. One of the things that we have in common with other animals, like chimpanzees, is that we live in social groups and rely on one another to survive. The more individual stuff just comes later, that's a byproduct of evolved social morality. We cooperate when it comes to childcare in the ways that other animals don't. Our cooperative schemes are much richer and so we need a richer morality in order to cooperate with one another.
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