Can evolutionary theorists ever make sense of religion? | Mark Vernon

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A new theory disregards the dominant evolutionary story, and explores instead religion's origins in playtime and ritual The currently dominant evolutionary story for the origin of religions might be called the "byproduct theory". It goes something like this. The human brain evolved a series of cognitive modules, a bit like a smartphone downloading applications. One was good for locomotion ...

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