Socialization is perfectly adequate as a basis for everything you&#x27;ve talked about, though.  Otherwise, you couldn&#x27;t trust your dog not to kill and eat your family the moment your back is turned.  And some ongoing research has even suggested that pure altruism exists in a cross-section of the animal kingdom.<p>No need to postulate supernatural forces when we can&#x27;t say we fully understand the natural world yet.