Trackbacks for article: "Religiosity - partly inherited by Genes":
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
Atheists a dying breed as nature 'favours faithful' - Sunday Times Jan 02 2011 - Jonathan Leake - Full Draft Version
Excerpt: For atheists it is the ultimate
irony. Evolution, the process they believe is solely responsible for
creating humanity, actually weeds out non-believers while favouring the
religious, new research has shown.
It suggests that, over
evolutio...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 06/01/2011 11:12
Charles Darwin about the Evolution of Religiosity and Religion(s)
Excerpt: As more and more among us start to explore the evolution of religiosity and religions from a range of scientific disciplines and nations, e.g. in the Evolutionary Religious Studies-network initiated by biologist David Sloan Wilson, I keep wondering abo...
Weblog: Biology of Religion
Date: 01/07/2010 21:21
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
