Title: Homo religiosus and its brain: Reality, imagination, and the future of nature.
Authors: Holmes, Rodney
Abstract: Takes a brief look at humans' neurological origins to assist in the appreciation of the reality apprehended by the human imagination. Humans' homonid beginnings from which culture and sapiens emerged; Hypothesis of coevolution explicating emergence of linguistic, historical and religious functions; Significance of claim that humans fundamentally remain as homo religiosus.
Subjects: GENETIC psychology; BRAIN; BIOLOGICAL evolution; IMAGINATION
Publication: Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 1996, Vol 31, Issue 3, p441
ISSN: 0591-2385
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1996.tb00036.x

Homo religiosus and its brain: Reality, imagination, and the future of nature.

Holmes, Rodney