Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality?

Vivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo "away" and sema "sign." Despit...

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Authors: Bulbulia, Joseph (Author) ; Fraser, Gloria (Author) ; Watts, Joseph (Author) ; Shaver, John H. (Author) ; Gray, Russell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 285-288
Further subjects:B honest signaling
B database
B SOCIAL COMPLEXITY
B Morality
B aposematism
B Prestige
B Stratification
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