Religion—An evolutionary adaptation
Religion—An evolutionary adaptation
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宗教——进化适应
DOI：
10.1096/fj.10-0502ufm
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2010
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P. Lachmann
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P. Lachmann
当查尔斯达尔文在1859年出版《物种起源》和1871年出版《人类的起源》时，他担心自然选择的进化会被视为与宗教对立的东西。然而，这里要辩护的命题是，他在这一点上是错误的，宗教本身可以被看作是一种进化的适应，它是为了满足人类的特殊需要而出现的--为了维持人类行为的那些重要方面，在这些方面，不同的人类群体之间存在差异，在足够大的个体数量和足够长的时间跨度内，它们是足够恒定的，自然选择可以对它们起作用。
When Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859 and The Descent of Man in 1871, he was concerned that evolution by natural selection would be seen—as it was then and still is—as standing opposed to religion. However, the proposition to be defended here is that he was mistaken about this point and that religion itself can be seen as an evolutionary adaptation that has arisen to meet a peculiarly human need—to maintain those important aspects of human behavior, where variation is found among different human groups, sufficiently constant over a sufficiently large number of individuals and over a sufficiently large span of time that natural selection can act upon them.