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The evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, and cross-cultural comparison of the anthropology of religion.
In the first of a two-part special, Brandon Ambrosino examines the evolutionary origins of religion. “This is my body.” These words, recorded in the Gospels as being spoken by Jesus during the...
Results indicate that the oldest trait of religion, present in the most recent common ancestor of present-day hunter-gatherers, was animism, in agreement with long-standing beliefs about the fundamental role of this trait. Belief in an afterlife emerged, followed by shamanism and ancestor worship.
If you've taken part in a religious service, have you ever stopped to think about how it all came to be? How did people become believers? Where did the rituals come from?
In a new paper, biologists suggest that religion evolved in our prehistoric past through processes by which serving one's family and larger social group become synonymous with...
different manifestations of religion evolve? In the field of evolutionary religious studies, scholars examine possible underlying psychological mechanisms of religious belief and behavior, as well as their adaptive and maladaptive features, to seek scientific answers to these questions.
Dunbar is clear that doctrinal truth claims, such as about the nature of God or of creation, have played a relatively minor and recent role in the evolution of religion.
We test key hypotheses about religion’s contribution to the expansion of sociality in eight diverse societies from around the world by concentrating on the variation critical to current evolutionary hypotheses about religion’s role in the evolution of cooperation, and focusing on sample, group, and individual-level sources of variation.
The evolutionary perspective on religion combines research findings and theoretical approaches to test the hypothesis that human religiousness may arise from a vast variety of adaptations in the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, observable both in recent cultures and in the cultural products of our ancestors. Theoretical approaches offer ...
Preforms of religion can be found in the first burials, around 90,000 years ago, and in the first ethological signals communicated through cave art, around 40,000 years ago. These signals and burials gradually changed their format and meaning.