Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Babies make us moral

Okay, not exactly, but the argument is that the nature of human child-rearing developed our senses of empathy and sympathy, which in turn make us more moral creatures.

Also see this article by Steven Pinker in the NYT Magazine, and some other recent articles along the same vein.  If you prefer a podcast, Marc Hauser was on POI about this very topic on 4/4/08 (.mp3).