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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Parasite stress is not so critical to the history of religions or major modern group formations
Contributor:
Atran, Scott
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2012
Published in:Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0140525x11001361
ISSN:
0140-525X;
1469-1825
Origination:
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Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Fincher & Thornhill's (F&T's) central hypothesis is that strong in-group norms were formed in part to foster parochial social alliances so as to enable cultural groups to adaptively respond to parasite stress. Applied to ancestral hominid environments, the story fits with evolutionary theory and the fragmentary data available on early hominid social formations and their geographical distributions. Applied to modern social formations, however, the arguments and inferences from data are problematic.</jats:p>