Totemism and Long-Term Evolutionary Success

dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Craig T.
dc.contributor.authorBegley, Ryan O.
dc.contributor.authorCoe, Kathryn
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Healthen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-10T20:51:38Z
dc.date.available2017-02-10T20:51:38Z
dc.date.issued2015-11
dc.description.abstractThis paper proposes that the clan Totemism existing in many traditional cultures, and described as religious by many ethnographers, provides evidence about the early evolutionary function of religion in the sense that it provides evidence of the effects of religion that caused it to become widespread in our species. However, this paper also proposes that evolutionary explanations of Totemism have failed to fully appreciate the reason clan Totemism acts as a kind of window into the past. This is the fact that the behaviors constituting clan Totemism could not have taken their form when first studied by anthropologists if they had not been copied from ancestors to descendants for many generations. This new multigenerational approach to clan Totemism combines 4 points about Totemism that have been recognized by others, but whose implications have not heretofore been fully comprehended.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationPalmer, C. T., Begley, R. O., & Coe, K. (2015). Totemism and long-term evolutionary success. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 7(4), 286–294. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000035en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/11913
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAPAen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1037/rel0000035en_US
dc.relation.journalPsychology of Religion and Spiritualityen_US
dc.rightsPublisher Policyen_US
dc.sourcePublisheren_US
dc.subjecttotemismen_US
dc.subjectreligionen_US
dc.subjectkinshipen_US
dc.titleTotemism and Long-Term Evolutionary Successen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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