The evolution of religiosity by kin selection

IF 3.6 3区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Kerstin Stucky, Andy Gardner
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Despite religion’s apparent ubiquity, hypotheses about the selection pressures that may have shaped its cognitive foundations remain controversial. Here, we develop and analyze 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 mold 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 religiosity phenotypes.
宗教性通过亲缘选择而进化
尽管宗教明显无处不在,但关于可能形成其认知基础的选择压力的假设仍然存在争议。在这里,我们开发并分析了一个数学模型,该模型受到Crespi和Summers的建议的启发,即亲子冲突推动了宗教信仰的进化,以探索这些选择压力的原因和后果。为此,我们采用亲缘选择方法来研究选择如何塑造个人的宗教倾向和相应的基因表达模式,揭示宗教信仰的进化是由社会伙伴之间的遗传关系调节的,与宗教信仰有关的选择可能取决于个人的年龄和性别。这种宗教信仰会引发基因组内部的利益冲突,从而导致父母出身的特定基因表达模式和伴随的临床疾病。更一般地说,我们发展了一个正式的理论框架,使我们能够对适应和不适应的宗教虔诚表型做出明确的、比较的预测。
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