I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

I believe that an evolutionary approach specifying the foundation of our moral sense can allow us to appreciate Hindu and Muslim cultures where women are veiled and seem to us to lead restricted lives.

The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

I think moral philosophy is speculation on how we ought to live together done by people who have very little clue how people work. So I think most moral philosophy is disconnected from the species that we happen to be. In fact, they like it that way. Many moral philosophers insist that morality grows out of our rationality, that it applies to any rational being anywhere in the universe, and that it is not based on contingent or coincidental facts about our evolution.