id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_3rdlubgnw5dqhdyeydx44ipxvu R. Rowthorn Religion, fertility and genes: a dual inheritance model 2011.0 9 .pdf application/pdf 8778 1293 71 is determined entirely by culture, whereas subjective predisposition towards religion is influenced by genetic endowment. Keywords: religion; fertility; evolution; genetic predisposition; cultural hitch-hiking; evolution view is that the existence of religion promotes the evolution of genes that predispose people towards religious is evidence that the rise of complex human culture in general has greatly accelerated the pace of genetic evolution, Another channel through which religion might influence genetic evolution is via its impact on fertility. If most of the children born within a high fertility group remain in the eventual size of the high fertility group, but their longrun genetic implications may be similar. Throughout the analysis we shall assume that fertility is an entirely cultural phenomenon: genes affect the Effect of fertility on the evolution of religion and genes. How religious defections influence social and genetic evolution. growth of a high-fertility religious group. population who belong to high-fertility religious groups ./cache/work_3rdlubgnw5dqhdyeydx44ipxvu.pdf ./txt/work_3rdlubgnw5dqhdyeydx44ipxvu.txt