Several commenters recommended Jamal Greene's How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart. I've read the introduction which summarizes some of Professor Greene's ideas, and I think it will be a good next step.
The Evolution Of Agency by Michael Tomasello suggests humans evolved remarkable capacity for abstraction through observation, learning, teaching, and language, aiding problem-solving.
Evolution supported by Cat Bohannon's book indicates early humans taught survival skills, with females likely teaching basic language to young, contributing to evolution through curiosity.
"Of all things the measure is man: of those that are, that they are; and of those that are not, that they are not.
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