Moral Behavior In Animals
While morality has long been seen as the exclusively purview of human beings - indeed, as one of the defining characteristics of being a human (along with high cognition) - there is mounting evidence that our primate relatives, along with other animals, are also capable of moral reasoning.
This strongly suggests that morality does indeed have a biological origin, being gradually evolved over millions of years. As our brain capacity and sociability grew, so too did the ability (and need) to develop moral and ethical values.
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