Reality about Human Morality

Morality is an evolved repertoire of cognitive and emotional mechanisms with distinct biological underpinnings, as modified by experience acquired throughout the human lifetime.

Morality is not the exclusive domain of Homo sapiens—there is significant cross-species evidence in the scientific literature that animals exhibit "pre-morality" or basic moral behaviors.

Morality is a "human universal" across all cultures worldwide, a part of human nature acquired during the course of human evolution.

Young children and infants demonstrate some aspects of moral cognition and behavior which precede specific learning experiences and worldview development.

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Why Evolution Is True

“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go."

“And although evolution operates in a purposeless, materialistic way, that doesn’t mean our lives have no purpose. Whether through religious or secular thought, we make our own purposes, meaning and morality."

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“We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured out how we came to be.”

Jerry A. Coyne in his book Why Evolution Is True