Following the traces of the sacred: a critical review of Darwinian proposals to explain religious behaviour
Keywords:
Historiography, Exaptation, Memetics, Multilevel Selection.
Abstract
In the present study a historiographical review is performed according to the main hypotheses have been proposed from a Darwinian point of view to analyse religion. First, the basic pillars of Darwinian theory are analysed: variation, inheritance and selection. Keeping in mind these previous ideas, Darwinists theorists have analysed the religion well as neutral phenomenon while exaptation, as a non-adaptive phenomenon from a memetic perspective while anachronism and as an adaptive phenomenon from a single and multilevel standpoint. Finally, a critical review is realised about problems and solutions of each perspective.Downloads
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2017-10-03
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Gómez Peña Á. (2017). Following the traces of the sacred: a critical review of Darwinian proposals to explain religious behaviour. ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 22, 203-220. https://doi.org/10.5209/ILUR.57413
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