Objectives Human childrearing is cooperative, with women often able to achieve relatively
high fertility through help from many individuals. Previous work has documented …

The number of studies examining gender differences in the social relationship rewards
associated with costly religious practice has been surprisingly low. Here, we use data from …

How do people deal with events they cannot control? Religious beliefs and practices are
common responses to uncontrollable situations. We analyzed the responses of …

How people perceive morality plays a crucial role in their behavior and moral decision
making. However, we have little understanding of the factors that drive the perception of …

The living world is a world of hierarchies. Higher levels of organisation have evolved from,
and apparently dominate, the units of which they are composed. For instance, genes …

This commentary highlights the important contributions of the target book to the cognitive
and evolutionary study of religion and identifies several issues and challenges that should …

In this commentary on Purzycki and Sosis' book Religion Evolving: Cultural, Cognitive, and
Ecological Dynamics (2022), I subject their central assumption, namely that religious costs …