If you've taken part in a religious service, have you ever stopped to think about how people become believers? Where do the rituals come from? And what purpose does it all serve? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode with social psychologist Azim Shariff. He argues that we should consider religion from a Darwinian perspective, as an innovation that helped human societies to grow and flourish.
Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.
