elationship between the evolution of rules, concern for human survival,and the need for increasing systemic efficiency. The evolution of ethicalsystems is a natural result of this relationship. Efficient biological systemsare likely to survive where inefficient ones do not. Organization followsefficient action.If the theory of natural selection holds true, it is likely that one of themechanisms that determines extinction or survival is an organism's ability touse its energies efficiently. The ways in which human beings or organismsstruggle to survive profoundly affect the way they behave. If order andefficiency in a biological system truly enhances its chances of survival, thenthe system will encourage the evolution of rules to make existence more orderly.By this thesis it could be said that, as the construction of human societyapproaches the ideal of efficiency by the promotion of societal peace throughthoughtful lawmaking, the chances of human civilization surviving extremely longperiods of time, increase exponentially in biological terms.It would be difficult to separate the biological evolution of humans from theevolution of the rule systems they create to define order. Human beings are apart of nature. They are subject to the influences of genetic development thathave been in the works for perhaps billions of years. At certain points,evolutionary ethics moves from talking about concerns of survival at the humanlevel to concerns of survival at the genetic level. This is a gray area, and onethat evolutionary biologists perhaps need to sort out. What is important,however, is that many behaviors arising from human struggles find their analogsin genetic and cellular activity. Clues explaining human behavior may run deepin the species.Over centuries the construction of social rule systems (formal laws, customs,manners) may result from credible and accurate observation rather thanself-serving beliefs defining what is real and true about h...
