Torrey, E: Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods Early Humans and the Origins of Religion
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 169.00
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
05.09.2017
Verlag
Columbia Univers. PressSeitenzahl
288
Maße (L/B/H)
23.9/16.1/2.7 cm
Gewicht
625 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-231-18336-9
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution. Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death.
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