The establishment of the Ethical Principle

With respect to their origins, are they innate (including 'divine', a priori, or evolutionarily determined), or are they purely social constructs?
According to researchers, humans (like all social beings) seem to have an innate moral nature at the basis of their social structures. Ethical principles would then be consequences of reasoning in that context, taking both the innate nature and the particular contextual expressions into account.
 
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