Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
Author(s): Lewis Wolpert
Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? Professor Lewis Wolpert investigates the nature of belief and its causes. He looks at belief's psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect. Wolpert explores the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from psychiatric disorders. And, he asks whether it is possible to live without belief at all, or whether it is a necessary component of a functioning society.
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'Brilliant and persuasive search for the source of our need to believe.' Sunday Times
Lewis Wolpert is a distinguished embryologist and an accomplished broadcaster. He is the author of A Passion for Science and Passionate Minds (with Alison Richards), and The Triumph of the Embryo. For Faber, he has written The Unnatural Nature of Science and Malignant Sadness.
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- : Faber and Faber
- : Faber and Faber
- : 01 December 0000
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lewis Wolpert
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 121.6
- : 288
- : Popular psychology