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Lesson 5: In the Jonathan Haidt Ted Talk in lesson 5, he entertains that the “staircase” may be an evolutionary adaptation.

Lesson 6: What are the significance of mirror neurons?

Lesson 5: In the Lesson 5 film called Where do Morals Come From?, Alex, the narrator, flatly rejects the idea of Singer’s expanding Moral Circle.

Lesson 6: In the article Whose Life Would You Save? the research of Joshua Greene is discussed. Which statement fits best with the article?

Lesson 6: What part of the brain might account for psychopathic behavior, according to a film in Lesson 6 (Ted TalK on altruism)?

Lesson 5: According to the Evolution and Morality article by Dr. Boeree, the author states that:

Lesson 5: In the Nicholas Wade article on the beginning of morality in primates, it mentions the primatologist Frans de Waal. What does de Waal argue?    

Lesson 5: In the film in Lesson 5 called Where do Morals Come From?, Alex, the narrator, explains two types of altruism: reciprocal altruism and kin altruism. Match the following with the correct response. Kin altruism has 2 matches and Reciprocal altruism has two 2 matches.

Lesson 5: In the Ted Talk by Jonathan Haidt, the psychologist argues that one of the most powerful forces in the world is human cooperation.

Lesson 5: Jonathan Haidt in his Ted Talk argues that Darwin’s understanding, as presented in the Descent of Man, only explains human’s experience of the profane but it does not explain human’s experience of the sacred.