This fascinating book by the author of The Moral Animal, Robert Wright, is a work of great intellectual depth and breadth, as well as occasional bursts of droll humor. The subject is an exploration of the human concept of divinity, which Wright traces from what is known about the pre-historic re...
Here's the problem with evolutionary psychology: its style of reasoning is all what I believe the brainy types call ex post facto. That is, practitioners take a look at features or patterns of human behavior today, then ponder about why that kind of activity might have been advantageous in "the e...