![]() ![]() This, of course, is a group selection argument - an individual sacrifice for a group benefit - and see the referenced posts if you're not familiar with the math, simulations, and observations which show that group selection arguments are extremely difficult to make work. ![]() So, the one concludes, religion must have evolved because it bound tribes closer together, and enabled them to defeat other tribes that didn't have religion. Religion often involves costly sacrifices, even in hunter-gatherer tribes - why does it persist? What selection pressure could there possibly be for religion? The one says: Where does religion come from? It appears to be a human universal, and to have its own emotion backing it - the emotion of religious faith. ![]() Perhaps the real reason that evolutionary " just-so stories" got a bad name is that so many attempted stories are prima facie absurdities to serious students of the field.Īs an example, consider a hypothesis I've heard a few times (though I didn't manage to dig up an example). Scientific Ev-Psych, The Tragedy of Group Selectionism, Evolving to Extinction ![]()
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