商品簡介
Looking at religion from an evolutionary perspective, Kardong (biology, Washington State U.) updates and rewrites his previous book Origin of God (2004) to argue that religion was an evolutionary necessity for human survival and describes what survival advantages it created, why it evolved, and why it has today's characteristics. He details examples of adaptive religion in primitive human societies, commonalities found throughout all human religion, the implications of these basic characteristics that contribute to biological survival, and its dangers in the present day. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Kenneth V. Kardong (Pullman, WA) is professor of biology in the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University and the author of the textbooks An Introduction to Biological Evolution and Vertebrates, plus numerous scientific papers. His research centers on the evolution of complex systems within vertebrate organisms.
