The Supernatural and Natural Selection: Religion and Evolutionary Success (Studies in Comparative Social Science) - Hardcover

Steadman, Lyle B.; Palmer, Craig T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594515654 ISBN 13: 9781594515651

Verlag: Routledge, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Steadman Lyle B Palmer Craig T

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Reseña del editor

Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.

Biografía del autor

Lyle B. Steadman is Professor of human evolution and social change at Arizona State University. Craig T. Palmer is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and coauthor of A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion (MIT Press 2001).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594515654
• ISBN 13: 9781594515651
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328