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Religious passion for traditions concerning sexual mores and family turns out to be a product of the finer workings of biological and cultural evolution.Ever wondered why many religious people seem to be especially passionate about traditions concerning sexual mores and family? Somewhat ironically, this turns out to be a product of the finer workings of biological and cultural evolution.

To what extent can human herding be explained in terms of the same goals that motivate herding in other social species?

Lack of exchange explains why culture evolves more slowlyIt is now well established that cultural evolution is a fundamentally Darwinian process, exhibiting incremental descent with modification, semi-random innovation (trial and error), competition among ideas, selective survival and other Darwinian features. One key ingredient of Darwinian evolution is genetic recombination, usually through sexual reproduction, which makes evolution a cumulative phenomenon.

Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives.Atheism will need to be combined with something else, something more constructive than its opposition to religion, to be relevant to our lives

While it is intuitively plausible that teaching [critical thinking] skills should be useful, evidence that they are teachable is sparse.

Norwegians Enlist EI to Help Preserve the Norwegian Model for Quality of Life Standards.