Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "宗教的進化起源" in Chinese language version.
Religious ideas can theoretically be traced to the evolution of brains large enough to make possible the kind of abstract thought necessary to formulate religious and philosophical ideas
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缺少标题 (帮助). Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness. W. W. Norton & Company. 2007: 232–233. ISBN 978-0-393-06498-8.with regard to hafted tools, One would have to understand that the two pieces serve different purposes, and imagine how the tool could be used,
Belief in cause and effect has had the most enormous effect on human evolution, both physical and cultural. Tool use, with language, has transformed human evolution and let to what we now think of as belief
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缺少标题 (帮助). Chapter 14, From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy. New York, NY: Norton. 1997: 277 [2020-07-23]. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0. (原始内容存档于2020-08-11).|chapterurl=
缺少标题 (帮助). Magic, Miracles, and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective. Walnut Creek, CA: AltMira Press. 2004 [2020-07-23]. ISBN 978-0-7591-0663-5. (原始内容存档于2020-08-11).|bibcode=
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值 (帮助). PMID 18832637. doi:10.1126/science.1158757.This 'coding of the non-visible' through abstract, symbolic thought, enabled also our early human ancestors to argue and hold beliefs in abstract terms. In fact, the concept of God itself follows from the ability to abstract and conceive of 'person'
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值 (帮助). PMID 16035401. doi:10.1017/s0140525x04000172.|bibcode=
值 (帮助). PMID 18832637. doi:10.1126/science.1158757.This 'coding of the non-visible' through abstract, symbolic thought, enabled also our early human ancestors to argue and hold beliefs in abstract terms. In fact, the concept of God itself follows from the ability to abstract and conceive of 'person'
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缺少标题 (帮助). Chapter 14, From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy. New York, NY: Norton. 1997: 277 [2020-07-23]. ISBN 978-0-393-03891-0. (原始内容存档于2020-08-11).|chapterurl=
缺少标题 (帮助). Magic, Miracles, and Religion: A Scientist's Perspective. Walnut Creek, CA: AltMira Press. 2004 [2020-07-23]. ISBN 978-0-7591-0663-5. (原始内容存档于2020-08-11).