Altruistic Celibacy, Kin-Cue Manipulation, and The Development of Religious Institutions.
Building on a model first proposed by Gary Johnson, it is hypothesized that religious institutions demanding celibacy and other forms of altruism from members take advantage of human predispositions to favor genetic relatives in order to maintain and reinforce these desired behaviors in non-kin sett...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 681 - 707 |
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