Re: Think religion isn't a product of evolutionary forces? Read this.

On Feb 19, 2:19 pm, dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Natural selection can act on human culture too

"Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): Natural selection can act on human culture as
well as on genes, says a new study which shows that cultural traits
affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different rate than
other cultural attributes."

http://www.thecheers.org/news/Science/news_12280_Natural-selection-ca...

Kind of a strange web site.  You may see some sexually titillating GIFs
in a sidebar.  There should be better source on the above study, but I
don't have time to search this morning.

    --dk...@xxxxxxxx

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0711802105v1


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