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Neuroscience, evolution and the sapient paradox: the factuality of value and of the sacred

Year: 2008

Type: review

Abstract: The human genome, and hence the human brain at birth, may not have changed greatly over the past 60000 years. Yet many of the major behavioural changes that we associate with most human societies are very much more recent, some appearing with the sedentary revolution of some 10000 years ago. Among these are activities implying the emergence of powerful concepts of value and of the sacred. What then are the neuronal mechanisms that may underlie these consistent, significant (and emergent) patterns of behaviour?

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0010

Author: Colin Renfrew

Institution: University of Cambridge

Language: English

Topic: Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2162539632

FWCI: 0.483

Cites: 40

Cited by: 87

Related to: 10