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Baselines for human morality should include species typicality, inheritances, culture, practice, and ecological attachment

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Darcia Narvaez*
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Abstract

Empirical studies involve WEIRD (Western, European, industrialized, rich, democratic) but also un-nested (raised outside humanity's evolved nest) and underdeveloped participants. Assessing human moral potential needs to integrate a transdisciplinary approach to understanding species typicality and baselines, relevant evolutionary inheritances beyond genes, assessment of cultures and practices that foster (or not) virtue, and ecological morality. Human moral reason (nous) emerges from all of these.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e163
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