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Nature 455, 1038-1039 (23 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551038a; Published online 22 October 2008

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Being human: Religion: Bound to believe?

Pascal Boyer1

  1. Pascal Boyer is in the Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA, and is the author of Religion Explained.
    Email: pboyer@wustl.edu

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Atheism will always be a harder sell than religion, Pascal Boyer explains, because a slew of cognitive traits predispose us to faith.

Is religion a product of our evolution? The very question makes many people, religious or otherwise, cringe, although for different reasons.

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