He actually comes out arguing a genetic basis for both morality and religion, similarly to what I had predicted the research would eventually show. p 50.
David Reich, if pushed, would admit the same thing.
Wade goes further, arguing that morality, insofar as it is instinctual, is not universal but local (meaning societal, national, tribal, civilizational, cultural, or racial, or combinations of all these and more), and that this is now apparent at the level of the gene.
Oxytocin is two edged: Throwing helmut or Muhammad under the train is ok for the Dutch!
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