Editing Moral relativism (section)

===Scientific===

====Morality and evolution====
{{See also|Evolution of morality}}
Research within [[evolutionary biology]], [[cognitive psychology]], [[ethology]], and [[evolutionary anthropology]] has claimed that morality is a [[natural phenomenon]] that was shaped by [[natural selection|evolutionary mechanisms]].<ref name="Joyce">{{cite book
|title=The Evolution of Morality
|isbn=978-0-262-10112-7
|last=Joyce
|first=Richard
|author-link=Richard Joyce (philosopher)
|publisher=MIT Press
|location=Cambridge, MA
|year=2006
|url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionofmoral00rich
|url-access=registration
|quote=evolution of morality joyce.
}}</ref> <!-- not in source: acting at the individual level, and through [[group selection]].--> In this case, morality is defined as the set  of relative social practices that promote the survival and successful reproduction of the species, or even multiple cooperating species.<ref name="shermer">{{cite book
|title=The Science of Good and Evil
|isbn=0-8050-7520-8
|year=2004
|last=Shermer
|first=Michael
|author-link=Michael Shermer
|chapter=Transcendent Morality
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eevvWAcMBaAC&q=shermer+exegesis&pg=PA19 |quote=Given this presupposition, it seems reasonable to be both a transcendentalist and an empiricist, or what I call a transcendent empiricist.
|title-link=The Science of Good and Evil
|publisher=Macmillan
}}</ref>