A01=Craig T. Palmer
A01=Lyle B. Steadman
aboriginal
adaptive behaviors
Ancestor Worship
ancestors
Antisocial Behavior
australian
Australian Aboriginal Peoples
Australian Totemism
Author_Craig T. Palmer
Author_Lyle B. Steadman
Banana Slug
behavior
Category=QRAM3
claims
consequence
Costly Signaling Theory
cultural transmission
dead
Dead Ancestor
El Dia De Los Muertos
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
ethnographic analysis
evolutionary anthropology
evolutionary origins of religious behavior
Expressing Man
Frazer's Laws
Frazer’s Laws
Hamlet Cluster
human cooperation
identifiable
Identifiable Effect
Identifiable Part
Inheritable Elements
Left Descendants
Living Ancestors
peoples
Poison Oracle
religious
Religious Behavior
Responsive Reading
ritual practices
Salem Village
Shaman's Influence
Significant Proximate Effect
Supernatural Claim
Water Witch
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781594515651
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spanning many different epochs and varieties of religious experience, this book develops a new approach to religion and its role in human history. The authors look across a range of religious phenomena-from ancestor worship to totemism, shamanism, and worldwide modern religions-to offer a new explanation of the evolutionary success of religious behaviors. Their book is more empirical and verifiable than most previous books on evolution and religion because they develop an approach that removes guesswork about beliefs in the supernatural, focusing instead on the behaviors of individuals. The result is a pioneering look at how and why natural selection has favored religious behaviors throughout history.
Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer
