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May 28, 2014 by Robert Young One among many inevitable phenomena? Credit: edwardmusiak, CC BY-NC-ND

For a biologist like me, the interesting questions about religion have always been where did it come from and why did it evolve? I taught evolutionary biology in a Catholic University in the most Catholic country in the world Brazil. Some of my colleagues here in the UK thought that must have been very challenging, but it wasn't. The Brazilian population is unusual in that 60% of the population are religious and also believe in evolution by natural selection.

The development of new religions looks like the way new species are formed and thrive. In case of protestants, the "evolutionary spark" would be Martin Luther with his calls for reform. Similarly the deliberate differences, such as religious rituals, were created to keep the two faiths separated in the same manner that speciation of songbirds often provides related species with similar, but distinct songs so they will not interbreed.

A recent study by Bernard Crespi and Kyle Summers at Simon Fraser University attempts to explain religion in biological terms. They believe that evolution of religion is similar to what happens to biological species when they evolve through "inclusive fitness", which is how biologists describe talk about nepotism.

The goal of all organisms is first to survive and then to create as many copies of their genes as possible, this can be done by reproducing at a high rate or by helping your relatives (who have copies of your genes) to reproduce or survive (inclusive fitness). There is an old Bedouin saying, which sums up what scientists call Hamilton's Rule:

Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world.

So inclusive fitness says we should take into account the copies of our genes in the bodies of relatives when expressing behaviour and help relatives when we are in gene profit.

For most of our evolutionary history we lived in small groups (fewer than 250 individuals) of relatives and in-laws. It was here that religion was first born. Anthropologists believe it started as wisdom being passed down from elder relatives. In many religions, the ancients (the dead) are worshipped as givers of advice. Much of this advice would be moral guidelines about how to treat kin well love thy neighbour and thereby promote copies of your own genes through the survival and reproduction of relatives.

The question is how to get people to believe in and follow such advice, the answer would be to develop the concept that such wisdom comes from super-beings. If such elders were long dead, this creates a concept of a benevolent supernatural parent figure, which are frequent in many religions. Thus, serving God is synonymous with serving your kin circle. Such selfless behaviour is susceptible to exploitation by free riders, but this is counteracted by the overseeing kin circle (the omnipresent God).

To support this evolution of tribal Gods, mechanisms are necessary to promote spiritual feelings (belief in the supernatural). Feeling spiritual has a genetic basis related to the creation of ideas and people with these genes are more likely to be religious. These feelings are also related to the friendliness neuromodulator oxytocin, which can generate a warm feeling of power, and which comes from being part of a large cooperative group.

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CARRINGTON Kindred made it a three-peat in Class B girls golf on Wednesday.

The Vikings shot a 351 in the second and final round at CrossRoads Golf Course and finished with a two-day total of 704 eight strokes ahead of both Hazen and Langdon. Kindred led Hazen by just two strokes after Tuesdays first round, but the Bison couldnt keep pace with the Vikings on Wednesday, turning in a final-round score of 358.

Napoleon-Gackle-Streeter trailed Kindred by three strokes after the first day, but fell to fourth place (731) after shooting a 375 on Wednesday.

Fargo Oak Grove rounded out the top five with a 733.

Kindred placed two golfers among the top 10 individuals. Alexis Piatz tied for third place with a 163 (81-82) and Savanna Nesemeier tied for seventh with a 168 (83-85).

Baylee Fitzgerald led Hazen the state runner-up for the third year in a row with a 174 (85-89). Kayla Lindquist and Nikole Bitterman both finished with a 177, and Bethany Leier carded a 185. Lindquist had Hazens best score of the day, 85.

Hazen coach Kathy Berglund was named Class B girls coach of the year.

Napoleon-GSs top performer was Shania Gross, who finished in a tie for seventh with a 168.

Heart Rivers Jada Mattson claimed medalist honors, shooting a 77 on Wednesday and finishing with a two-day total of 153. Brynn Fischer of Langdon was a distant second with a 160.

Kinzie Molde of Grafton and Mattson were tied for the lead both 76 at the end of the first day, but Molde fell out of contention on Wednesday, struggling to an 89.

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