I suspect the short answer to the question is “no”.
Dr. Haidt believes that religion has played an important role in human evolution by strengthening and extending the cohesion provided by the moral systems. “If we didn’t have religious minds we would not have stepped through the transition to groupishness,” he said. “We’d still be just small bands roving around.”
Religious behavior may be the result of natural selection, in his view, shaped at a time when early human groups were competing with one another. “Those who found ways to bind themselves together were more successful,” he said.
This is the sort of thing that I find incredibly annoying. Notice that there’s no connection whatsoever to the genetic definition of TENS which Scott is defending. And then there’s also the fact that the rate of “moral evolution” has increased by several orders of magnitude, if we accept the idea that the new equalitarian ideology is, in fact, a moral system.
Scientists working with evolution and natural selection appear to be every bit as prone to “magical thinking” as any Aztec priest.