Solving the evolutionary puzzle of human cooperation

In this book, Glenn Barenthin provides a new solution to a key question in the cognitive and evolutionary study of religion: why do humans cooperate? What led humans, uniquely among animals, to have large-scale civilizations with unprecedented cooperation? One explanation, propagated by the Big Go...

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Main Author: Barenthin, Glenn (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Bloomsbury Academic 2019
[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) 2019
In:Year: 2019
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religious sociology / Cooperation
Further subjects:B Theology
B Religion and sociology
B Cooperation
B Religion
B Electronic books
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