My work is at a nexus between evolutionary psychology and the psychology of religion. I often wonder things like why religions evolved different food practices and why they have different religious ...

When I tell people that I conduct work in the field of evolutionary psychology, a common response is about like this: “Oh, I bet you get a lot of resistance from religious people!” And folks are often ...

Scopes trial becomes Scopes myth. A popular-yet-inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the Scopes trial. The trial is reduced to a simplistic battle ...