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Nature 442, 137 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442137a; Published online 12 July 2006
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God is bred
Crispin Tickell1
Abstract
Religious belief can be viewed as an adaptation that was favoured as the human brain evolved.
BOOK REVIEWED-Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
by Lewis Wolpert
Faber and Faber: 2006. 243 pp. £14.99 To be published by WW Norton in the United States in January 2007
There are, of course, many more than six impossible things to believe in before breakfast (as Alice said in Through The Looking Glass). The range of human beliefs — past, present and probably future — is almost infinite.
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