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Humans are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers. A mother's love of her child enters into her utility function independently of her desire to maximize inclusive fitness, even though the relevant neuroanatomy is the result of an optimization process maximizing only inclusive fitness.
Is that descriptive or normative?
Purely descriptive. On a broadly subjectivist metaethics, it also has normative implications.