TY - GEN N2 - Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be. AB - Steven Pinker has said that one of the most important questions humans can ask of themselves is whether moral progress has occurred or is likely to occur. Buchanan and Powell here address that question, in order to provide the first naturalistic, empirically-informed and analytically sophisticated theory of moral progress-explaining the capacities in the human brain that allow for it, the role of the environment, and how contingent and fragile moral progress can be. T1 - The evolution of moral progress :a biocultural theory / AU - Buchanan, Allen E., AU - Powell, Russell, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BJ1311 ID - 837608 KW - Ethics, Evolutionary. SN - 9780190868444 TI - The evolution of moral progress :a biocultural theory / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868413.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190868413.001.0001 ER -