The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology



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Centuries earlier "We observe that in those animals, dogs for instance, in which the female by herself suffices for the rearing of the offspring, the male and female stay no time together after the performance of the sexual act. They are Laurence Tancredi, a lawyer and forensic psychiatric consultant; Michael Gazzaniga, a psychobiologist whose expertise is split-brain research; and Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist and psychologist. According to social science as well as neuroscience, humans appear to be prewired with moral circuitry. We are guided by two very different processes. The first is largely automatic and can loosely be termed .. What about the journalists, bloggers, and science communicators that are an important part of the way that scientific knowledge—and importantly, the scientific enterprise—is communicated? We struggle with our behavior because we consider future consequences; we have the capacity to “think it through” and usually stay within the moral ropes. Wright, The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, Pantheon Books, New York, 1994. What determines the way we behave? It would seem that we are victims of our genetic and cultural heritage, a failure that flows logically from Darwin's theory of evolution. The BioLogos Forum: Science and Faith in Dialogue In 1975, Harvard biologist E. Wilson created a firestorm when, in his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, he argued that human nature might be explainable in evolutionary terms.

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