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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of evolution of morality this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              },
              {
                "id": "evidence-neighbours",
                "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart",
                "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.",
                "evidence": [
                  {
                    "name": "Moral development",
                    "difference": "Concerns changes within an individual's lifetime; evolution of morality concerns origins and changes across biological or cultural generations."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Evolutionary ethics",
                    "difference": "Examines the implications of evolutionary accounts for ethics, including justification; evolution of morality primarily concerns explanatory accounts of origins and change."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Evolution of cooperation",
                    "difference": "Studies how cooperative behavior arises and persists, including in organisms without moral judgment; morality additionally involves disputed criteria such as obligation, evaluation or accountability."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Biological altruism",
                    "difference": "Is defined by fitness costs to an actor and benefits to recipients, independently of intentions or judgments about right and wrong."
                  },
                  {
                    "name": "Moral progress",
                    "difference": "Requires an evaluative claim that morality has improved; evolutionary change need not constitute improvement."
                  }
                ],
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01",
                    "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of evolution of morality this model covers, and on what evidence?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Which definitions of morality permit useful comparison across human cultures and other species without equating morality with all cooperation or excluding relevant nonverbal capacities?",
    "For each proposed moral capacity, what evidence can distinguish adaptation for a moral function from co-option, developmental constraint or by-product explanations?",
    "How can research estimate the relative contributions and interactions of biological inheritance, cultural transmission, institutions and individual reasoning to a particular moral change?",
    "Which historical evidence can distinguish a norm's spread through beneficial social effects from spread through coercion, demographic change or unequal power?",
    "Under which additional philosophical premises, if any, should evolutionary explanations alter confidence in moral judgments or assessments of moral progress?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 6,
    "layers": 11,
    "findings": 17,
    "questions": 32
  }
}
