Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by Torrey, E. Fuller
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by Torrey, E. Fuller

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and...
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Author: E. Fuller Torrey
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Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by Torrey, E. Fuller

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

$128.10
Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion by Torrey, E. Fuller

Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods: Early Humans and the Origins of Religion

$128.10
Author: E. Fuller Torrey
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Religions and mythologies from around the world teach that God or gods created humans. Atheist, humanist, and materialist critics, meanwhile, have attempted to turn theology on its head, claiming that religion is a human invention. In this book, E. Fuller Torrey draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to propose a startling answer to the ultimate question. Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods locates the origin of gods within the human brain, arguing that religious belief is a by-product of evolution.

Based on an idea originally proposed by Charles Darwin, Torrey marshals evidence that the emergence of gods was an incidental consequence of several evolutionary factors. Using data ranging from ancient skulls and artifacts to brain imaging, primatology, and child development studies, this book traces how new cognitive abilities gave rise to new behaviors. For instance, autobiographical memory, the ability to project ourselves backward and forward in time, gave Homo sapiens a competitive advantage. However, it also led to comprehension of mortality, spurring belief in an alternative to death. Torrey details the neurobiological sequence that explains why the gods appeared when they did, connecting archaeological findings including clothing, art, farming, and urbanization to cognitive developments. This book does not dismiss belief but rather presents religious belief as an inevitable outcome of brain evolution. Providing clear and accessible explanations of evolutionary neuroscience, Evolving Brains, Emerging Gods will shed new light on the mechanics of our deepest mysteries.



Author: E. Fuller Torrey
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780231183369


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2017
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author
E. Fuller Torrey is associate director for research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute and the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center. His books include The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths (1984); The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens (2008); Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual, 6th ed. (2013); and American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System (2013).
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