ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we begin to more carefully distinguish between natural moral values and the moral capacities that may arise in response to them. We suggest that moral values arise before the responses to them do, and that such values may form an interrelated set of biological natural kinds. We begin the argument that the values and the capacities may be dynamically related to one another in ways that enable the development of evolutionary trajectories: increasingly complex developmental pathways made possible by feedback loops between the capacities and the features of the environment they develop in response to. In linking natural moral values to moral capacities, we also begin to identify a biological source of moral normativity, a source of normativity we distinguish from but nonetheless causally connect to the development of human moral norms.
