Robin Dunbar - How Religion Evolved And Why it Endures

The Author Archive Podcast

04-03-2024 • 27 mins

In the spring of 2024 clashes driven by different religious beliefs and identities seem frighteningly threatening.

Robin Dunbar is Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford. From his academic standpoint he charts the evolution of religion in all its many guises and forms.

Does the professor's analysis explain the enduring but shrinking appeal of non logical beliefs?