Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anthropology. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Just a little reminder how amazing we all are.

We have come so far from those days of scrambling up trees to escape predators, and huddling in caves paralyzed with fear.

And look we did it without having to rely on firearms to make us feel powerful and safe.


Wednesday, November 26, 2014

"Religion is really made by the brain. It is a secretion of the brain."

Lionel Tiger is a Canadian-born, American-based anthropologist. He is the Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University and co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

I swear as much as I love politics, this is the kind of thing that really gets my intellectual juices flowing. I guess in my case brain secretions are caused by pursuing an understanding of the origins, purpose, and benefits to humans of religion.