Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by E. Fuller Torrey [Book Review]

The Quarterly Review of Biology 93 (3):251-252 (2018)
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This book takes a brain-centric approach to the evolution of religion, where the evolution of religion is the evolution of cognitive capacities and the evolution of these is rooted in that of the brain.

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