If our moral sense, like our sexual desire, is indeed rooted deep inour Darwinian past, predating religion, we should expect thatresearch on the human mind would reveal some moral universals,crossing geographical and cultural barriers, and also, crucially,religious barriers. The Harvard biologist Marc Hauser, in his bookMoral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal Sense of Rightand Wrong, has enlarged upon a fruitful line of thoughtexperiments originally suggested by moral philosophers.

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