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A (New) Darwinian Left - Peter Singer (Live in Melbourne)

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Implications of Multi-Level Selection for Religion

Brett Weinstein: There are two different definitions of religion in the literature. If you think of religion as a moral community that binds people together then it's clearly an adaptation, says David Sloan Wilson. evolutionary biologists now talk about religion as being an adaptation and if we think about religion this way the scales sort of fall from our eyes he adds.

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