Doug Candland, mental fossils, R Hanson on "The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"

[gusl]

Doug Candland, one of the most interesting people I met at Bucknell, now has a website. He is the one who introduced me to the concept of meme.

He has finally finished the first draft of his new book Psychology of Mental Fossils: Toward an Archeo-psychology

It deals with the question:
Why do some ideas com up time and time again in human cultures? e.g. spiritual healing, phrenology?

This reminds me of Robin Hanson's review of Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought"

I might call such a topic "the anatomy of human quirkiness".

Comments

[trufflesniffer.livejournal.com]

Thank you for writing this. It looks very interesting.