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Book 1992

Origins of the sacred

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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Language
English
Published
1992
  • Religion.
  • Holy, The.
  • Sex -- History.
  • Violence -- History.
  • Genetic psychology.
  • Human evolution.

Explores the relationship of sex and violence in human evolution and in the human brain, and how the emergence of religion, law, and civilization were related to these basic human instincts.