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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge
2017
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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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