ABSTRACT
My goal here is twofold. First, I suggest that most evolutionary accounts of moral behavior do not fully take the emergence of cognition and culture into consideration, with the result that many evolutionary accounts
of morality are improperly skewed. Second, I propose that we can understand human morality in a biological framework, recognizing both the continuities and discontinuities with other organisms in the animal world. I suggest that religious accounts of human goals and behaviors have an appropriate and necessary place in such a framework. There may also be a sense in which religious accounts compete with secular accounts in a way that has a tangible effect on human conduct.
