The emergence and evolution of religion by means of natural selection / Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Armin W. Geertz.

Author
Turner, Jonathan H. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    Evolutionary analysis in the social sciences
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Explaining the origins and evolution of religions
    • 2. Types of natural selection driving religious evolution : a preliminary review
    • 3. In the beginning : The evolution of primates
    • 4. Darwinian selection on the hominin brain I : directional selection on pre-adaptations
    • 5. Darwinian selectio on the Hominin Brain II : selection on behavioral propensities and capacities
    • 6. The profane origins of the sacred and supernatural : Darwinian and type
    • 1 spencerian natural selection
    • 7. Type
    • 1 Spencerian selection : the early institutionalization of religion
    • 8. Durkheimian selection : the social ecology of religious evolution
    • 9. Type-2 spencerian selection : the geopolitics of religious evolution
    • 10. Marxian selection : the dynamics of religious conflict.
    ISBN
    • 9781138080904 ((hardcover))
    • 113808090X ((hardcover))
    • 9781138080928 ((paperback))
    • 1138080926 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017008446
    OCLC
    975008449
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