Moral Origins the magnolia league but the more the merrier

but the more the merrier

John Popper does it all with his signature honesty

Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish

as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach

realizes the true measure of her strength

Moral Origins the magnolia league but the more the merrierFrom the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is "selfish," do people engage in self sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue and shame to justify that altruism? Many theories have been put forth, some emphasizing the role of nepotism, others emphasizing the advantages of reciprocation or group selection effects. But evolutionary