[MD] Is morality Hard Wired?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Krimel <Krimel at Krimel.com>:


> [Krimel]
> The book I have been referring to spells this all out. But essentially
> Shermer is saying that we as animals on this planet evolved under very
> different conditions than the ones we live in today. Primates are for the
> most part social creatures. Our close relatives today bonobos, chimpanzees,
> gorillas and even most monkey species live together in social groups of
> various sizes. But there is a great deal of similarity in the way they live
> and interact. He makes a correlation between brain size and the size of
> their social groups.

I hope Shermer points out that male chimps kill other chimps not of their
family or social group.




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