hypothesis 2: the moral law as an adaptive phenotype - Natural selection promulgates the moral law phenotypically, just as it promulagates the laws of reason. - Potential sister hypothesis: natural selection enforces the generalized causal rule. - I wonder at the correlations among: ⁃ causal rule ⁃ natural selection ⁃ Price equation !! I suspect it is unhelpful. ∵ It explains altruism and competition among community members as a function of relatedness. ∵ It operates at small intraspecific scale, wheras I am at the largest possible scale. ∵ It does not claim to be the only mechanism, which would be implausible, given how social instutions (which have their own generative mechanisms) can alter the selective environment. ⁃ normative law = moral law - Each has, in its own way, a truistic sort of emptiness to it. !! No utility: raising this hypothesis (unlike the first) serves no purpose here.