RT Article
T1 Evolution of religious capacity in the genus homo: trait complexity in action through compassion
JF Zygon
VO 53
IS 1
SP 198
OP 239
A1 Boone, Margaret S.
A1 Corbally, Christopher J. 1946-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/157139401X
AB In this third and last article on the evolution of religious capacity, the authors focus on compassion, one of religious expression's common companions. They explore the various meanings of compassion, using Biblical and early related documents, and derive general cognitive components before an evolutionary analysis of compassion using their model. Then, in taking on neural reuse theory, they adapt a model from linguistics theory to understand how neural reuse could have operated to fix religious capacity in the human genome. They present a teaching tool on "Religious Capacity in Action", and develop an example of compassionate decision making in very early Homo sapiens in North Africa. They round out their analysis of compassion by exploring theory in neuroscience on a standard decision?making model, and investigate what goes on in the human brain when a values-based decision is made.
K1 Anthropology
K1 Cognitive Science
K1 Compassion
K1 Cultural Evolution
K1 Decision Making
K1 Evolutionary Biology
K1 Genetics
K1 neural reuse
K1 Neuroscience
DO 10.1111/zygo.12388