The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution
Margaret Boone Rappaport, "The Emergence of Religion in Human Evolution "
English | ISBN: 0367245205 | 2019 | 268 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0367245205 | 2019 | 268 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Religious capacity is a highly elaborate, neurocognitive human trait that has a solid evolutionary foundation. This book uses a multidisciplinary approach to describe millions of years of biological innovations that eventually give rise to the modern trait and its varied expression in humanity’s many religions. The authors present a scientific model and a central thesis that the brain organs, networks, and capacities that allowed humans to survive physically also gave our species the ability to create theologies, find sustenance in religious practice, and use religion to support the social group. Yet, the trait of religious capacity remains non-obligatory, like reading and mathematics. The individual can choose not to use it.
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