ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2003.00540.x From Biology to Consciousness to Morality Goodenough Ursula Deacon Terrence W. 02 12 2003 38 4 10.1111/zygo.2003.38.issue-4 801 819

Abstract. Social animals are provisioned with prosocial orientations that operate to transcend self‐interest. Morality, as used here, describes human versions of such orientations. We explore the evolutionary antecedents of morality in the context of emergentism, giving considerable attention to the biological traits that undergird awareness and our emergent human forms of mind. We suggest that our moral frames of mind emerge from our primate prosocial capacities, transfigured and valenced by our symbolic languages, cultures, and religions.

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