Evolutionary perspectives on religion

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 111-130

  Boyer, Pascal ^a   Bergstrom, Brian ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Cognition; Cooperation; Institutions; Morality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MORALITY; RELIGION;

EID: 55349146984     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.37.081407.085201     Document Type: Article

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