This special issue conceptually and empirically focuses on the psychological evolution and the universality of religion, totemic and shamanic beliefs, and nature.
To address those key issues, the editors organized the articles on the basis of two primary themes. The first theme addressed evolution and the cultural nature of totemism, Shamanism, and other human spiritual beliefs. The second theme pertained to evolutionary kinship and sociocultural and cognitive investigation of religions and spirituality.
Guest Editors
Table of contents
An Introduction to the Special Issue on the Nature and Evolution of Totemism, Shamanism, Religions, and Spirituality
Pages 265–266
Lee, Yueh-Ting; Kanazawa, Satoshi
Shamanism as a Biogenetic Structural Paradigm for Humans' Evolved Social Psychology
Pages 267–277
Winkelman, Michael
Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural Investigation of Totemism and Daoism
Pages 278–285
Lee, Yueh-Ting; Beddow, Michelle; Chan, Xin Ni; Xu, Changjiang
Totemism and Long-Term Evolutionary Success
Pages 286–294
Palmer, Craig T.; Begley, Ryan O.; Coe, Kathryn
Fuzzy People: The Roles of Kinship, Essence, and Sociability in the Attribution of Personhood to Nonliving, Nonhuman Agents
Pages 295–305
Johnson, Kathryn A.; Cohen, Adam B.; Neel, Rebecca; Berlin, Anna; Homa, Donald
Where Do Gods Come From?
Pages 306–313
Kanazawa, Satoshi
On the Varieties of Sexual Experience: Cross-Cultural Links Between Religiosity and Human Mating Strategies
Pages 314–326
Schmitt, David P.; Fuller, Robert C.
Learned Faith: The Influences of Evolved Cultural Learning Mechanisms on Belief in Gods
Pages 327–335
Gervais, Will M.; Najle, Maxine B.
