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n the wake of The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, a
great many evolutionists began speculating how human so-
cial behavior, emotions, judgments and ideas—all attributes
of the human spirit—might have been shaped by evolution.

According to the most widespread error, if our bodies' appearance
and functioning were shaped by evolution, then the behavior our bod-
ies exhibit must have been shaped by evolution, too. Evolutionists,
unable to account for how the biological structures in living things
came into being, now began inventing tales regarding the so-called
evolution of the human soul.