Being that evo psychs weren't a thing until mid to late c19 the idea pre-dates them by far. Human morality in lit is always interesting!
But modern evo psychs didn't hypothesise this. They make hypotheses about evolution.
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Cf. Your comment clearly implies those guys first came up with it. That's what I was taking issue with.pic.twitter.com/iMF8hpBv9N
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Litersry scholars have known for ages that people wrote literature to work out moral questions.
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You are missing the point. The difference between why we evolved certain traits and what we decide to do consciously and why.
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If they hypothesise that humans became a story-telling species as a way to explore situations without actually placing themselves in it.
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As I said, literary scholars and novel writers knew this long before evo psychs came on the scene
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guess it's too late to discuss that some moral ideals have changed in lit lol