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20 Mar 07

Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior - New York Times

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Every species of ape and monkey has its own protocol for reconciliation after
fights, Dr. de Waal has found. If two males fail to make up, female chimpanzees
will often bring the rivals together, as if sensing that discord makes their
community worse off and more vulnerable to attack by neighbors. Or they will
head off a fight by taking stones out of the males’ hands.
Social living requires empathy, which is especially evident in chimpanzees, as
well as ways of bringing internal hostilities to an end.
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- Though human morality may end in notions of rights and justice and fine ethical
  distinctions, it begins, Dr. de Waal says, in concern for others and the
  understanding of social rules as to how they should be treated. At this lower
  level, primatologists have shown, there is what they consider to be a sizable
  overlap between the behavior of people and other social primates.
- Dr. de Waal, who is director of the Living Links Center at Emory
  University, argues that all social animals have had to constrain or alter
  their behavior in various ways for group living to be worthwhile. These
  constraints, evident in monkeys and even more so in chimpanzees, are part of
  human inheritance, too, and in his view form the set of behaviors from which
  human morality has been shaped.
- Last year Marc Hauser, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard, proposed in his
  book “Moral Minds” that the brain has a genetically shaped mechanism for
  acquiring moral rules, a universal moral grammar similar to the neural machinery
  for learning language. In another recent book, “Primates and Philosophers,” the
  primatologist Frans de Waal defends against philosopher critics his view that
  the roots of morality can be seen in the social behavior of monkeys and apes.
- Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of
  human morality. T
- Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees,
  who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others.

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