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Darwin's Cathedral

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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
AuthorDavid Sloan Wilson
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Publication date2002
ISBN978-0-226-90135-0

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society (ISBN 9780226901350) is a 2002 book by David Sloan Wilson which proposes that religion is a multi-level adaptation—i.e., a product of cultural evolution developed through multi-level selection.[1][2]

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The Journal of the American Academy of Religion called it a "welcome book" because "it unsettles everybody, evolutionary biologist and religious believer alike".[3] Jared Diamond in the New York Review of Books called it a "thought-provoking book" which "will stimulate each reader to examine his or her personal view of religion's future".[4]

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