Moralizing gods, impartiality and religious parochialism across 15 societies

The emergence of large-scale cooperation during the Holocene remains a central problem in the evolutionary literature. One hypothesis points to culturally evolved beliefs in punishing, interventionist gods that facilitate the extension of cooperative behaviour toward geographically distant co-religi...

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Main Authors: Lang, M, Purzycki, BG, Apicella, CL, Atkinson, QD, Bolyanatz, A, Cohen, E, Handley, C, Klocová, E, Lesorogol, C, Mathew, S, McNamara, RA, Moya, C, Placek, CD, Soler, M, Vardy, T, Weigel, JL, Willard, AK, Xygalatas, D, Norenzayan, A, Henrich, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society 2019