Little Hominids

I’ve thought for sometime that our tendency for belief in deities and the supernatural may come from our strong parental instincts.  Since we’re so helpless when we are born we might have evolved strong parental attachments that never switch off once we’re grown.  Behaviors associated with strong parental attachment may be what they’re focusing on in this study.

Check out this article at Science Daily.

Tags: anthropology, behavior, religion

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