As I noted in yesterday’s post, Richard Dawkins calls David Sloan Wilson’s theory of religious evolution “perverse.” As you may recall, Sloan Wilson believes that religion originated as an adaptation giving some groups advantages over others. These supposed advantages arise from Sloan Wilson’s belief that religious groups are more cohesive, moral, and prosocial than non-religious [...]
Matt Rossano, an evolutionary psychologist at Southeastern Louisiana University, has published several articles on the evolution of religion. Most of his articles are available online (open access). You can find “The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religion” here, and “The African Interregnum: The Where, When, and Why of the Evolution of Religion” here. In [...]
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