Michael Blume discusses the ‘importance of religion for evolutionary biology’ on a new blog posting on SciLogs.
“… The first scientist to propose testable hypotheses concerning the biocultural evolution of religiosity (biological predisposition to behave towards superempirical agents) and religions (cultural traditions relating to superempirical agents) has been Charles Darwin. But although some classic scholars of religion such as Emile Durkheim fruitfully worked in that field, it finally succumbed to heated polemics of religious vs. antitheists as well as the natural vs. social sciences. Until some years ago, when it was finally brought up again by evolutionary biologists for the sake of their own field…”
Read the full posting here.
Posted on Monday, January 31st, 2011.