Francis Fukuyama's essay seems to have some contradictory arguments in it (20 April, p 42). On the one hand, he claims (p 45) that "there are good evolutionary reasons why... emotions exist", while on the other hand he states (p 44) that "the bizarre outcome of our evolution is that what is most important to us as human beings has no apparent purpose in the material scheme of things by which we became human. For it is the distinctive human gamut of emotions that... is the source of human values."
So, does evolution serve as a rationalisation for the importance of our human emotions, or doesn't it?
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