Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preliminary Quotes and Introductory Remarks
Foreword
Chapter 1. The Evolutionary Identity
Chapter 2. Evolutive Impact of Neurobiological and Cultural Development: Epigenesis
Chapter 3. Comparative Issues
Chapter 4. Identity and Moral Issues under a Neurobiological Approach
Chapter 5. Social Ecology and Brain Reorganization
Chapter 6. Evolutive Background of Poverty and Social Marginality: Poverty and Marginality as Social and Economic Categories
Chapter 7. Emotional Components in the Construction of Beliefs
Chapter 8. Further Comparative Analysis of Culture Generation and the Evolutionary Origin of Beliefs
Chapter 9. Supernatural Constructions and Altered States of Conscience
10. Final Comments
Summary Addendum
Bibliography
Keywords: Human genetic baggage, Culture as an evolutive modifier, Reward, pleasure, and risk-taking, Social ecology and brain reorganization, Poverty and social marginality comparative evolution, Beliefs, rituals and emotional components, Beliefs and their evolutionary process, Religiosity, Social dominance, Supernatural beliefs, altered states of conscience, Rituals and social bonding, Social inequity and human evolution
Audience: Basically undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, Social and Educational policy makers, teachers in the previously mentioned fields.