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en-wikipedia-org-4779		Evolutionary ethics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3529	538	45	Field of inquiry that explores how evolutionary theory might bear on our understanding of ethics or morality. Descriptive evolutionary ethics consists of biological approaches to morality based on the alleged role of evolution in shaping human psychology and behavior. For instance, some proponents of normative evolutionary ethics have argued that evolutionary theory undermines certain widely held views of humans' moral superiority over other animals. E. Moore, William James, and John Dewey roundly criticized such attempts to draw ethical and political lessons from Darwinism, and by the early decades of the twentieth century Social Darwinism was widely viewed as discredited.[3] A key issue in evolutionary psychology has been how altruistic feelings and behaviors could have evolved, in both humans and nonhumans, when the process of natural selection is based on the multiplication over time only of those genes that adapt better to changes in the environment of the species.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4779.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4779.txt