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Evolving brains, emerging gods : early humans and the origins of religion / E. Fuller Torrey.

By: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ß2017Description: 1 online resource (xv, 291 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231544863
  • 9780231544863
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 200.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .T6155 2017eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Brain, Home of the Gods; Part 1. The Making of the Gods; 1. Homo habilis: A Smarter Self; 2. Homo erectus: An Aware Self; 3. Archaic Homo sapiens (Neandertals): An Empathic Self; 4. Early Homo sapiens: An Introspective Self; 5. Modern Homo sapiens: A Temporal Self; Part 2. The Emergence of the Gods; 6. Ancestors and Agriculture: A Spiritual Self; 7. Governments and Gods: A Theistic Self; 8. Other Theories of the Origins Of Gods; Appendix A: The Evolution of the Brain.
Appendix B: Dreams as Proof of the Existence of a Spirit World and Land of the DeadNotes; Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-277) and index.

Print version record.

Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Brain, Home of the Gods; Part 1. The Making of the Gods; 1. Homo habilis: A Smarter Self; 2. Homo erectus: An Aware Self; 3. Archaic Homo sapiens (Neandertals): An Empathic Self; 4. Early Homo sapiens: An Introspective Self; 5. Modern Homo sapiens: A Temporal Self; Part 2. The Emergence of the Gods; 6. Ancestors and Agriculture: A Spiritual Self; 7. Governments and Gods: A Theistic Self; 8. Other Theories of the Origins Of Gods; Appendix A: The Evolution of the Brain.

Appendix B: Dreams as Proof of the Existence of a Spirit World and Land of the DeadNotes; Index.

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