1st Edition
Religion and its Evolution Signals, Norms and Secret Histories
Introduction to religion and its evolution: signals, norms, and secret histories
Carl Brusse and Kim Sterelny
1. Minds of gods and human cognitive constraints: socio-ecological context shapes belief
Rita A. McNamara and Benjamin Grant Purzycki
2. A national-scale typology of orientations to religion poses new challenges for the cultural evolutionary study of religious groups
Joseph A. Bulbulia, Geoffrey Troughton, Benjamin R. Highland and Chris G. Sibley
3. The coevolution of sacred value and religion
Toby Handfield
4. Signaling theories of religion: models and explanation
Carl Brusse
5. Did religion play a role in the evolution of morality?
Stephen Stich
6. Religion: costs, signals, and the Neolithic transition
Kim Sterelny
7. Mysticism and reality in Aboriginal myth: evolution and dynamism in Australian Aboriginal religion
Peter Hiscock
8. On the origins of enchantment: not such a puzzle
Paul Seabright
Biography
Carl Brusse holds postdoctoral appointments at The Australian National University (School of Philosophy) and The University of Sydney (Department of Philosophy and The Charles Perkins Centre), Australia. He works on game theoretic and evolutionary explanation in the human sciences.
Kim Sterelny is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Australia. He is the author of The Evolved Apprentice: How Evolution Made Humans Unique (2012) and The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution (2021) among other books.
