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The Evolution Of Bret Weinstein

The Joe Walker Podcast

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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.

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