If evolution is true (it is), then we should expect to find precursors for human morality in non-human animals. And we have (I told you, evolution is true!): scientists have identified a wide range of supposedly moral behaviors in non-human animals. Yet many people are skeptical of their claims, and argue that humans cannot reasonably infer the motivations that drive non-human animals to act in supposedly moral ways. But in his new book, Can Animals Be Moral?, University of Miami philosophy professor Mark Rowlands posits that, given our evolutionary link, it’s only reasonable to conclude animals act moral for the same reasons humans do: emotions. We might think of [British ethologist Conwy Lloyd Morgan’s] Canon as akin to a game with a set of arbitrary…