Argues that humans are genetically predisposed toward religious faith, explaining why spiritual belief provides an evolutionary advantage and analyzes the DNA makeup of people of various ages and backgrounds to identify a so-called God gene.
A la lumière d'un siècle de recherches anthropologiques et celles des vingt dernières années en biologie de l'évolution et en psychologie expérimentale, l'ouvrage répond à une question essentielle : pourquoi la religion existe-t-elle?
Indigenous societies around the world have been historically disparaged by European explorers, colonial officials and Christian missionaries. Nowhere was this more evident than in early descriptions of indigenous religions as savage, primitive, superstitious and fetishistic. Lib…