Evolution of religious capacity in the genus homo: trait complexity in action through compassion

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...

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Altri titoli:EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS CAPACITY IN THE GENUS HOMO
Autori: Boone, Margaret S. (Autore) ; Corbally, Christopher J. 1946- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
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(sequenze di) soggetti normati:B Homo (Genere) / Neuroscienze / Evoluzione religiosa / Empatia
Notazioni IxTheo:AB Filosofia delle religioni
AE Psicologia delle religioni
CB Esistenza cristiana
ZD Psicologia
Altre parole chiave:B Cognitive Science
B Decision Making
B Neuroscience
B Cultural Evolution
B Anthropology
B Compassion
B Genetics
B Evolutionary Biology
B neural reuse
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Riepilogo: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12388