The Biological Evolution of Religious Mind and Behavior

by Eckart Voland

Book Overview

From the contents: Introduction.- Evaluating the Evolutionary Status of Religiosity and Religiousness.-Gods, Gains, and Genes.- How Some Major Components of Religion Could Have Evolved by Natural Selection.- The Correlated History of Social Organization, Morality, and Religion.- Is There a Particular Role for Ideational of Religious in Human Behavioral Ecology.- Talk and Tradition: Why the Least Interesting Components of Religion May Be the Most Evolutionarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642260160
• ISBN13: 9783642260162
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"