Trackbacks for article: "Biocultural Evolution or Gene-Culture-Coevolution":
Missionaries or Parents? How are religions growing?
Excerpt: For the last years, the demographic potentials of religiosity have been my primary focus of research. Repeatedly, people asked me whether proselytizing or high fertility would be more important for the success of a religious tradition.
Now,...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 24/09/2011 17:59
Why Religion is not going to die - The Quiverfull Example of Religious Fertility
Excerpt: These last days, a mathematical study about a purported decline of religious affiliation incited various (online-)debates. It was presented by Daniel Adams and Richard Wiener at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas. Although I was asked by a...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 06/04/2011 21:29
Religiosity Genes (again) confirmed by (another) Twin Study
Excerpt: For decades, religiosity (defined as beliefs or behaviors towards superempirical agents) has been explored like other traits such as musicality, intelligence or skin color by Twin Studies - which conclusively found it to be partially inherited by genes...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 12/03/2011 21:47
David Sloan Wilson and the Importance of Religion for Evolutionary Biology
Excerpt: 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 Ch...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 30/01/2011 12:07
How religiosity is spreading in the gene pool
Excerpt: These last weeks have seen a flurry of evolution-religion reports in the scientifically minded media. For example, Jesse Bering wrote about religion & demography in Scientific American, Jonathan Leake featured about the low birth rates of atheists ...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 12/01/2011 21:13
The Shakers - and their importance for Evolutionary Studies
Excerpt: In a recent post and article, I wrote about the high-fertile Old Order Amish and their reproductive success. The United Believers in Christ's Second Appearance commonly called The Shakers are another religious tradition proving that religiosity is able...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 03/10/2010 20:52
Conference Report - Explaining Religion at Bristol University 2010
Excerpt: Among those scientific conferences I had the pleasure to attend, "Explaining Religion" at Bristol University won (and will hold) a very special place. It had been very well-organized by Finn Spicer, Nathalia Gjersoe, Andrew Atkinson and Saman...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 05/09/2010 21:08
Religions and Fertility in the US - GSS-Data
Excerpt: There are many high-fertile religious communities out there - as, for example, the Old Order Amish. Other religious groups, as the Shakers, who didn't manage (or chose) to have enough children, succumbed to (bio-)cultural evolution as well. In contrast...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 03/06/2010 19:36
Clips about the Evolution of Homo sapiens
Excerpt: Living in Europe, it is rather easy to assume that people around the world would share a perspective on the evolution of our species. But as I learned from some comments and mails, this is not the case. Therefore, I decided to present the scientific st...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 26/02/2010 21:37
Biokulturelle Evolution
Excerpt: Es soll immer noch Leute geben, die behaupten, "Evolution" sei ein rein biologischer Begriff. Dabei stammt "Evolution" - und übrigens auch "genetisch"! - aus der Sprachwissenschaft, die bereits Jahrzehnte vor Charles ...
Weblog: Natur des Glaubens
Date: 02/01/2010 14:41
Social and Secular Progress - Good news for Religion?
Excerpt: For some years, a range of empirical studies (e.g. Inglehart & Norris in "Sacred and Secular", 2004) confirmed a global correlation of religiosity to societal levels of want and income inequality and (especially) insecurity. As respective...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 19/12/2009 20:09
