The Role of Religion in the World

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Religion unites people. It helps with co operation, says author Lesley Silo. We can reconstruct e a story aboutoits consistent with the evidence, but many stories ware probably consistent with the same of the scanty evidence that we have. But bodye it's, i think the argument is that that it brings people together. Kind of a group selection argument.

In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.