The innate human disposition to acquire ideas of all-knowing supernatural agents fundamentally interested in one’s moral behavior can be demonstrated as adaptively advantageous in the context of its emergence in ancestral human populations. It seems undeniable that human beings appear to be graced with the predisposition to accept as reasonable the idea that some form […]

All phenotypic traits ubiquitous to a given species are considered to necessarily have evolved as adaptations in response to the environments in which they arose. A phenotypic trait introduced into a population, by virtue of what is proven by evolutionary theory, necessarily experiences selective pressures. In response to environmental factors, any novel trait in a […]