Re: Think religion isn't a product of evolutionary forces? Read this.

'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank <lflank@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 19, 12:42 pm, dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Natural selection can act on human culture too

"Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Natural selection can act on human culture as
well as on genes, says a new study which shows that cultural traits
affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than
other cultural attributes."

http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_12280_Natural-selection-ca...

Kind of a strange web site. You may see some sexually titillating GIFs
in a sidebar. There should be better source on the above study, but I
don't have time to search this morning.




I don't see a word anywhere in there about religion being
genetic . . . . . .

As for "cultural traits effecting survival get selected for", all I
can do is shrug and say "no ***".

That doesn't mean that ANY of them are genetic.

What's with this requirement that it must be genetic? Evolution doesn't
require genes, and it doesn't mean that anythng that has differential
survival and reproduction must be genetic.

It's *cultural* evolution, not *biological*.
--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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