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The Moral Animal

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Natural selection shaped the emotions, moral instincts, and social strategies that feel most authentically human — and knowing this changes how we live.

Sex: Primary
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Present

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men and women are designed to tailor their sexual strategies to local market conditions — the norm among each sex depends on the norm among the other
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mind-and-cognition

We should probe our commonsense reactions carefully before concluding that the common sense itself isn't a cognitive distortion created by evolution
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the more you ponder reciprocal altruism's finer points, the more mercenary the genes seem
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the growing organism's sense of guilt may be educated so as to permit those forms of cheating that local conditions make adaptive
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They fiercely compete for the affection and attention of their parents… displaying jealousy so petty that it's hard to credit them with love
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mothers in poor physical condition might profit genetically from treating daughters as more valuable assets than sons
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