Morals, values, habits arose to support the instincts, not the other way around, as religion too often seems to see it. This is what naturalizing the values is all about, this is what sociobiology is trying to do in our time.
Edmund Burke said that values and morals civilize and beautify relationships, which could be interpreted as helping ones group survive more successfully. Group behavior can ennoble human beings.
But it is also dehumanizing to deny the animal in man (Burke), just as it is dehumanizing to take away the cultural attributes and affirm only the animal (Paine).
But it is not good enough to support only the instincts or only the cultural values and morals of group selection, life also needs to affirm the sacred goal of evolving to Godhood. Add the activating Spirit-Will-To-Godhood (it is also a natural instinct) to naturalized values and to group morality, and we have a winner.
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