What's Morality? Don't Ask This Darwinian Philosopher

In the Chronicle of Higher Education today, philosopher Michael Ruse concludes:

The scientific claim is that morality is natural. It is an adaptation produced by natural selection to make us good cooperators.

Yet the "morality" that Ruse describes, and thinks he explains, has little to do with what just about every person actually thinks morality is. According to Ruse, moral beliefs are emotional sentiments that get us to cooperate in kin-survival-enhancing ways. Practically no one who has...