Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show.

My guest today is Dr. Victor Kumar. He's an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University,

part of the Mind and Morality Labs Moral Psychology Research Group, and an author.

Morality might seem like something that exists independently of humans.

Things are either good or bad.

The current evolutionary state humans are in should not impact this judgment.

Yet, it seems that culture and evolution heavily influenced each other.

And the influenced morality too.

Expect to learn why Asian people get red faces when they drink alcohol,

which moral emotions can be detected in chimpanzees,

why sympathy can be seen as investment advice,

how come some people can consume milk and others can't,

whether moral grandstanding and performative empathy on Twitter can be explained by evolution,

the reason for altruism existing and much more.

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