ON THE EVOLUTION OF MORALITY AND RELIGION: A RESPONSE TO LEE CRONK |
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| Authors: | Roy A. Rappaport |
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| Affiliation: | Roy Rappaport, Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, is a member of the Anthropology Department and Director of the Program on Studies in Religion at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Issue is taken with Dawkins and Krebs's (1978) conception of communication as being by nature manipulative and with Cronk's proposals concerning the evolution of morality, both of which are grounded in evolutionary biology. An alternative view, which recognizes that which humanity has in common with other species but which emphasizes humanity's distinctiveness, is offered to account for religion and morality. |
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| Keywords: | evolution falsehood manipulation morality ritual truth |
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