A Templeton Conversation: Does evolution explain human nature?

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Does evolution explain human nature?

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Templeton/Discover panel discussion at Yale University

Clip 1: Evolution and morality (1:46) Clip 2: Individualism as a scientific bias (1:59) Clip 3: Darwin and the problem of altruism (5:19) Clip 4: Is there cultural evolution in other species? (2:57) Clip 5: What evolution does not explain (1:34) Clip 6: Moral obligation and human uniqueness (3:07)

Does evolution explain human nature?

Three experts explored this question on September 24, 2009 during a panel discussion sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, Yale University, and Discover magazine.

The panel featured Kenneth Miller, professor of biology at Brown University and author of Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution; Laurie Santos, a Yale psychologist who studies the roots of human behavior through the study of primates; and David Sloan Wilson, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at State University of New York-Binghamton and author of several books on evolution, including Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society. The panel was moderated by Corey S. Powell, editor and chief of Discover.