Victoria Pendleton

no, we simply haven't evolved beyond them. just because we've evolved intelligence enough to form societies and create art and write essays on social conditioning doesn't mean that the underlying biological realities have disappeared!

social factors do influence our behaviour in big ways, but social factors are built on millions of years of biological processes that have got us to the (very recent) point where 'civilised' human society was able to appear at all. go and read some sociobiology and evolutionary psychology books - Cosmides and Toobey aren't bad.

Actually, this dispute is ultimately about what is the primary explanatory science, out of biology and philosophy (leaving out theology for the moment).

Many philosophers would argue that a lot of this simply lacks a proper explanation from first principles--i.e., the whole shebang, from metaphysics to ethics to epistemology, etc. A biologist would invoke other explanatory methods.

Too big a question to debate on the forum. :)