ABSTRACT
Upon this ground, the SSSM has a decisive advantage. If we ignore history and culture, as EP is all too eager to do, then we easily misread existing social norms as the direct expression of human nature. We miss the extent to which these norms are within our power to transform. But with regard to other regions of human behavior, it may well be the case that EP's hypotheses are correct. To take one example almost at random, the patterns of disgust exhibited by human beings really do seem to track the extent to which objects that elicit it manifest signs which would indicate potential infection. Our propensity to this emotion really does seem the product of natural selection. Here is an instance where human nature does not merely set the boundaries of human life; it helps to explain the details.
