Evolving brains, emerging gods : early humans and the origins of religion / E. Fuller Torrey.

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- ISBN: 9780231183369 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0231183364 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: xv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-277) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The brain, home of the gods -- Part 1. The making of the gods. Homo habilis : a smarter self ; Homo erectus : an aware self ; Archaic Homo sapiens (Neandertals) : an empathic self ; Early Homo sapiens : an introspective self ; Modern Homo sapiens : a temporal self -- Part 2. The emergence of the gods. Ancestors and agriculture : a spiritual self ; Governments and gods : a theistic self ; Other theories of the origins of gods -- Appendix A: The evolution of the brain -- Appendix B: Dreams as proof of the existence of a spirit world and land of the dead. |
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Subject: | Religion > Philosophy. Anthropology of religion. Brain > Evolution. |