Trackbacks for article: "Homo religiosus - The Natural History of Religion":
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
Guest post: From Religion, the Blessing of Civilization
Excerpt: A happy new year, a happy new step: Today, we may enjoy the first guest blogpost here on the Scilog "Biology of Religion" by Alan Le Fevre. Being an avid reader and commentator of this blog, I asked him to formulate his pe...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 31/12/2010 09:38
Explaining Religion - Conference at Bristol University, September 2010
Excerpt: During the last years, the increasingly interdisciplinary and international evolutionary studies of religiosity and religions made tremendous progress. 'Explaining Religion 2010' is an interdisciplinary conference run by the
University of Bristol's De...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 21/07/2010 21:51
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 19:37
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 21:30
Humans are Cooperative Breeders! - Evolving Religion? Sarah Hrdy
Excerpt: For a long time, evolutionary studies have been dominated by Western male scientists. Maybe it is not that surprising that their main hypotheses about the specific pathways of our hominid ancestors focussed on competition, hierarchies, warfare, weapon-...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 21/01/2010 17:47
Evolution of Religion - Darwin Year Book Review
Excerpt: Now, the Darwin Year is over. In a sense, sadly so. It has been full of surprises. Think of it: How many people expected it to run as a kind of a climax in the Culture Wars between (some) Evolutionists and (some) religious Fundamentalists. But then, su...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 01/01/2010 13:04
