Book Review: Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution,Religion,and the Nature of Society

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Corning, P. (2003) Nature’s Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

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Diamond, J. (2002) “The Religious Success Story”, New York Review of Books November 7.

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Ellis, B.J. and Ketelaar, T. (2000) “On the Natural Selection of Alternative Models: Evaluation of Explanations in Evolutionary Psychology” , Psychological Inquiry 11: 56-68 .

Falk, A.E. (2003) “Review of Darwin’s Cathedral” , Quarterly Review of Biology 78: 74-75 .

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Grinde, B. (1998) “The Biology of Religion: A Darwinian Gospel” , Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 21: 19-28 .

Hefner, P. (1993) The Human Factor: Evolution, Culture, and Religion. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press .

Hinde, R. A. (1999) Why Gods Persist: A Scientific Approach to Religion. London and New York: Routledge .

Irons, W. (1996a) “In Our Own Self Image. The Evolution of Morality, Deception, and Religion” , Skeptic 4(2): 50-61 .

Irons, W. (1996b) “Morality, Religion, and Human Evolution”, in W. M. Richardson and W.J. Wildman (eds) Religion and Science: History, Methods, Dialogue, pp. 375-399. New York: Routledge .

Jones, E. and Reynolds, V. , eds (1995) Survival and Religion: Biological Evolution and Cultural Change. Chichester: Wiley .

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MacDonald, K. (1998a) Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism. Westport, CT: Praeger .

MacDonald, K. (1998b) The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements. Westport, CT: Praeger .

MacDonald, K. (2003) “Anmeldelse av Darwin’s Cathedral” , Human Ethology Bulletin 18(1): 6-9 .

Miele, F. (1996) “The Imperial Animals 25 Years Later: An Interview With Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox” , Skeptic 4(1): 78-85 .

Orr, H. A. (2003) “The Science of Religion” , Evolution 57: 200-202 .

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Reynolds, V. and Tanner, R. (1983) The Biology of Religion. London and New York: Longman .

Reynolds, V. and Tanner, R. (1995) The Social Ecology of Religion. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press .

Richerson, P. J. and Boyd, R. (1998) “The Evolution of Human Ultrasociality”, in I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt and F. K. Salter (eds) Ethnic Confliict and Indoctrination: Altruism and Identity in Evolutionary Perspective, pp. 71-95. New York and Oxford: Berghahn .

Richerson, P. J. and Boyd, R. (1999) “Complex Societies: The Evolutionary Origins of a Crude Superorganism” , Human Nature 10: 253-289 .

Richerson, P. J. and Boyd, R. (2001) “The Evolution of Subjective Commitment to Groups: A Tribal Instincts Hypothesis”, in R.M. Nesse (ed.) Evolution and the Capacity for Commitment, pp. 186-220. New York: Russell Sage Foundation .

Roele, M. (1993) “Religious Behaviour as a Utility- and Inclusive Fitness-Optimizing Strategy” , Social Science Information 32 (3): 387-417 .

Ruse, M. (2002) “Can Selection Explain the Presbyterians?” , Science 297: 1479 .

Segerstrale, U. (2000) Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press .

Sober, E. (1994) “Did Evolution Make Us Psychological Egoists?”, in E. Sober (ed.) From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy, pp. 8-27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

Sober, E. and Wilson, D. S. (1998) Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press .

Sosis, R. (2003) “Review of Darwin’s Cathedral” , Evolution and Human Behavior 24: 137-143 .

Steadman, L. B. and Palmer, C. T. (1995) “Religion as an Identifiable Traditional Behavior Subject to Natural Selection” , Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 18: 149-164 .

Thompson, N.S. (1999) “Group Selection and the Origins of Evil” , Skeptic 7(2): 70-73 .

Tiger, L. (1979) Optimism: The Biology of Hope. New York: Simon and Schuster .

Tiger, L. (2002) “Review of Darwin’s Cathedral” , New York Sun June 17.

Wenegrat, B. (1990) Sociobiological Psychiatry: Normal Behavior and Psychopathology. Lexington, MA and Toronto: Lexington Books .

Williams, P. A. (2001) Doing Without Adam and Eve: Sociobiology and Original Sin. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress .

Wilson, D. S. (1980) The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Cummings .

Wilson, D. S. (1983) “The Group Selection Controversy: History and Current Status” , Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 14: 159-187 .

Wilson, D. S. (1992) “On the Relationship between Evolutionary and Psychological Definitions of Altruism and Selfishness” , Biology and Philosophy 7: 61-68 .

Wilson, D. S. (2001) “Evolutionary Biology: Struggling to Escape Exclusively Individual Selection” , Quarterly Review of Biology 76: 199-205 .

Wilson, D. S. and Sober, E. (1989) “Reviving the Superorganism” , Journal of Theoretical Biology 136: 337-356 .

Wilson, D. S. and Sober, E. (1994) “Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences” , Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17: 585-654 .

Wilson, E. O. (1978) On Human Nature. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press .

Wright, R. (2000) Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon .