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The Ingredients of Evolved Biocultural Morality
17:10 - 26:00 (08:49)
This podcast explores the components that make up an evolved biocultural morality, highlighting moral emotions, norms, and reasoning. It also discusses the role that social groups and circumstances have in shaping and influencing an individual's moral behavior.
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Understanding and following social norms is crucial for human societies to function properly and raise the next generation.
17:10 - 20:51 (03:40)
Summary
Understanding and following social norms is crucial for human societies to function properly and raise the next generation. This includes having social models to learn from and a set of moral emotions that guide interactions with others.
ChapterThe Ingredients of Evolved Biocultural Morality
Episode#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
PodcastModern Wisdom
Humans needed to cooperate in order to fend off their territory and access new forms of food, leading to evolved biocultural morality based on moral emotions, norms, and reasoning.
20:51 - 26:00 (05:09)
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Humans needed to cooperate in order to fend off their territory and access new forms of food, leading to evolved biocultural morality based on moral emotions, norms, and reasoning. Chimp societies have higher incidents of violence but are less lethal compared to humans.