Chanelle Wilton

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• Buss, D.M. (2002). Sex, marriage, and religion: What adaptive problems do religious phenomena solve? Psychological Inquiry, 13(3), 201-203.
• Ilkka, P., & Hauser, M. 2010. The origins of religion: Evolved adaptation or by-product? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(3), 104-109.

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• Sioblom, Tom. (2007). Spandrels, gazelles and flying buttresses: Religion as adaptation or as by-product. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 7(3-4), 293-312.
  • This is a good article because it provides insight to the other view held by evolutionary psychologists in relation to religion. This article explores the view of religion as a by-product of other cognitive and behavioural processes that evolved for other reasons. This article does a good comparison between the two opposing views.
• Sosis, Richard. (2009). The adaptationist-byproduct debate on the evolution of religion: Five misunderstandings of the adaptationist program. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 9(3-4), 315-332.
  • This is an interesting article that explores the critiques that some evolutionary psychologist have of the adaptation theory of religion. In this article the author offers five critiques and then responds to them.