“…These intuitions, we and others have argued, form the core of justice institutions-a core that is supplemented by reasoning (Kahan, 2015;see Sperber, 1997;Sunstein, 1999;Greene, Nystrom, Engell, Darley, & Cohen, 2004;Mercier & Sperber, 2011) writing (Goody, 1986;Fridman, 1985), and other elements. This constitutes an adaptationist theory of justice institutions (Jones, 2001;Jones & Goldsmith, 2005;Cosmides & Tooby, 2006;Locke, 1988;Patrick, 2016;Patrick, 2023;Lieberman & Patrick, 2018;Sznycer & Patrick, 2020;Sznycer, Sell, & Williams, 2023).…”