PERS 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Steven Mithen, Noble Savage, Parental Investment
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Comparative religious studies has a lot to do with it. Religion is not diminishing, but is quickly growing in the world. Christianity is biggest religion in world, islam is second. Religion is holding steady in us (church-goers etc) are more in america than in 1776 (1776: 25% / 2015: 44%) Historically christianity has been the most violent religion (again, there are a lot of christians) Global interaction, need to know about those w/who we interact. Wednesday, august 26, 2015: (1) x need not have existed, or need not be all as it is. But what is it: gender is not sex, ongoing, organizing, real v perceived, stratifying, man over woman, just as racial categories have been constructed. How does religion t in this: scopes trial, 1925, southeast america is the place where evolution is mostly debated against (although other religious people everyone else accepts it from genesis 1) Evolutionary psychology and sex: inter-sexual selection, attraction.
