The Faith Instinct - Nicholas Wade
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Written by Nicholas Wade
Read by Alan Sklar
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Taking up where he left off in Before the Dawn (2006), an engaging examination of human evolution in light of explorations in the human genome, longtime New York Times science reporter Wade deftly explores the evolutionary basis of religion. He draws on archeology, social science and natural science as he vigorously shows that the instinct for religious behavior is an evolved part of human nature because, like other human social traits that have evolved over many thousands of years, the practice of religion conferred a decided survival advantage to those who practiced it. Natural selection operates according to principles of survival and reproduction of offspring with heritable traits. Many of the social aspects of religious behavior offer advantages—such as internal cohesion—that lead to a society’s members having more surviving children. More importantly, since religions have evolved as their societies have developed, is it possible, Wade asks, for religions to be reworked so that as many people as possible can exercise their innate religious instincts to their own and society’s benefits? Sure to be controversial for its reduction of religion to a product of natural selection, Wade’s study compels us to reconsider the role of evolution in shaping even our most sacred human creations.
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| Creation Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:54:40 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 01 - Chapter 1 The Nature of Religion.mp3 20.69 MBs | |
| 02 - Chapter 2 The Moral Instinct.mp3 23.55 MBs | |
| 03 - Chapter 3 The Evolution of Religious Behavior.mp3 49.83 MBs | |
| 04 - Chapter 4 Music, Dance and Trance.mp3 23.9 MBs | |
| 05 - Chapter 5 Ancestral Religion.mp3 32.04 MBs | |
| 06 - Chapter 6 The Transformation.mp3 23.52 MBs | |
| 07 - Chapter 7 The Tree of Religion.mp3 60.7 MBs | |
| 08 - Chapter 8 Morality, Trust and Trade.mp3 22.75 MBs | |
| 09 - Chapter 9 The Ecology of Religion.mp3 26.56 MBs | |
| 10 - Chapter 10 Religion and Warfare.mp3 23.72 MBs | |
| 11 - Chapter 12 Religion and Nation.mp3 27.67 MBs | |
| 12 - Chapter 12 The Future of Religion.mp3 11.69 MBs | |
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