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The evolution of religiosity by kin selection

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Date
10/06/2022
Author
Stucky, Kerstin
Gardner, Andy
Funder
NERC
European Research Council
Grant ID
NE/K009524/1
771387
Keywords
Evolution
Genomic imprinting
Inclusive fitness
Intragenomic conflict
Imprinting disorders
Kin selection
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Religion
BF Psychology
RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
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Abstract
Despite religion’s apparent ubiquity, hypotheses about the selection pressures that may have shaped its cognitive foundations remain controversial. Here, we develop and analyse a mathematical model inspired by Crespi and Summers’ suggestion that parent-offspring conflict has driven the evolution of religious beliefs to explore the causes and consequences of these selection pressures. To this end, we employ kin selection methodology to investigate how selection may mould an individual’s propensity for religiosity and corresponding patterns of gene expression, revealing that the evolution of religiosity is modulated by genetic relatedness between social partners, that selection in relation to religiosity may depend on an individual’s age and sex, and that religiosity can foment intragenomic conflicts of interest that give rise to parent-of-origin specific patterns of gene expression and concomitant clinical disorders. More generally, we develop a formal, theoretical framework that enables the derivation of clear-cut, comparative predictions about adaptive as well as maladaptive phenotypes.
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Stucky , K & Gardner , A 2022 , ' The evolution of religiosity by kin selection ' , Religion, Brain & Behavior , vol. Latest Articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2076727
Publication
Religion, Brain & Behavior
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2076727
ISSN
2153-5981
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Funding: Funding. This research was supported by a Natural Environment Research Council Independent Research Fellowship (grant no. NE/K009524/1) and a European Research Council Consolidator (grant no. 771387).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25581

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