What we call morality is really an emergent phenomenon, coming from the biological system that we are part of. We understand it as morality, but it is really a something that has not proved detrimental (some would even say it has even been beneficial) to our species.
One could theorise that when a speices reaches a certain level of self-awareness it becomes practical for the brain to enshroud behaviour that helps the speices to expand* by covering it in feelings of pleasure and "this is right" in order not to confuse the animal. Morality is really not much different than the 'drive to have kids' or 'the need to take care of the kids'. And just as these two phenomena, there will be (due to biological diversity) people that do strange things that are outside of the program and clearly detrimental. (Imagine a mother killing her young or a person commiting a murder.
To think that moral from the beginning is something that we have received from some external source is clearly not needed or even likely.
*In the expression 'helps the speices to expand' I include such things as 'promote stability in the society' in a general sense and also 'expand in numbers sustainably'.
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