Science, Creation & EvolutionMorality and evolutionismWhy would traits have to be an all animals? Traits like mutual altruism* will only develop in social animals, because it is crucial for working together. There are also traits that have developed in animals that humans don't share. Dogs feel the need mark their territory with urine. They have good noses and pick up the faint scent. Humans have relatively bad noses, so we don't have to expect many characteristics that are based on smell. If dogs were psycho-analists they would probably have been writing books about the traits and psychological responses a fellow dog would experience whenever they would smell another dogs urine: recognition ('hee, the dog next door!'), fear (oh no, that big st. bernard has claimed this tree!'), excitement (oh, this one is in heat!'). Dogs would claim their array of emotions would put them above all the other lowly animals, like we humans are doing right now. We now know that dogs do the things they do because it suits their environment (both natural and social environment). Why is it so hard to recognise that our behaviour is also inspired by (and evolved because of) our natural and social environment? *mutual altruism: The idea that 'if I help you now, you will help me (later).' When you buy a round of beer from your friends, you expect to get a few beers back from your friends later. Ants have it ('I help you by storing food, you help me by defending the colony'), chimpanzee have it, bees have it: it is a trait that is seen in cooperative societies and the basis of our economic system (I help you with these goods, you help me with that money) and our sense of justice (and revenge: 'you hurt me, I hurt you'). |
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