Religion and Memes and Extended Phenotypes

"There are about three possible ways that religion could have evolved firstly as a meme secondly as a spandrel and then thirdly as an extended phenotype," says evolutionary biologist. "I do not believe that it is especially useful to speak of a meme or a gene in both cases I think this gets us into trouble", he adds. 'To say that something is aging or a Meme often causes us to say something foolish' said the author.