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Creating God

Hidden Brain

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How Much Sex Should You Have?

evolutionary theory of religion can also explain why many religions are deeply, some might say, obcessively, interested in questions relatidg to sex. One of the things that's very common among religions is to have norms regulating what you ca call am values. Having lots of children leads to larger societies. Larger societies can out compete those societies that didn't have a lot of children. It's petition between cultural ideas and cultural groups such that those socially functional ideas tend to be preserved over generations. And so this is how cultural evolution works....

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