Evolutionary Processes in the Natural History of Religion: Body, Brain, Belie...

by Hansjörg Hemminger

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Evolutionary Processes in the Natural History of Religion: Body, Brain, Belief by Hemminger, HansjÖrg, ISBN 3030704106, ISBN-13 9783030704100, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The study of religion by the humanities and social sciences has become receptive for an evolutionary perspective. Some proposals model the evolution of religion in Darwinian terms, or construct a synergy between biological and non-Darwinian processes. The results, however, have not yet become truly interdisciplinary. The biological theory of evolution in form of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) is only sparsely represented in theories published so far by scholars of religion. Therefore this book reverses the line of view and asks how their results assort with evolutionary biology: How can the subject area “religion” integrated into behavioral biology? How is theory building affected by the asymmetry between the scarce empirical knowledge of prehistoric religion, and the body of knowledge about extant and historic religions? How does hominin evolution in general relate to the evolution of religion? Are there evolutionary pre-adaptations? Subsequent versions of evolutionary biology from the original Darwinism to EES are used in interdisciplinary constructs. Can they be integrated into a comprehensive theory? The biological concept most often used is co-evolution, in form of a gene-culture co-evolution. However, the term denotes a process different from biological co-evolution. Important EES

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2022
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9783030704100
• Condition: Fine

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