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The emergence and evolution of religion by means of natural selection / Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra Maryanski, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Armin W. Geertz.
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Turner, Jonathan H.
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English
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New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
©2018
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xvii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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BL51 .T788 2018
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Subject(s)
Religion
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Philosophy
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Evolution
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Natural selection
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Miscellanea
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Author
Maryanski, Alexandra
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Petersen, Anders Klostergaard
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Geertz, Armin W.
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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.
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ISBN
9781138080904 ((hardcover))
113808090X ((hardcover))
9781138080928 ((paperback))
1138080926 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017008446
OCLC
975008449
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