Department of Anthropology,University of Connecticut,Storrs, CT
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Jun;37(3):275-6. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13003038.
Although religions, as Smaldino demonstrates, provide informative examples of culturally evolved group-level traits, they are more accurately analyzed as complex adaptive systems than as norm-enforcing institutions. An adaptive systems approach to religion not only avoids various shortcomings of institutional approaches, but also offers additional explanatory advantages regarding the cultural evolution of group-level traits that emerge from religion.
尽管宗教为 Smaldino 提供了有价值的群体层面特质的文化进化范例，但更准确地说，宗教是复杂的自适应系统，而不是执行规范的机构。宗教的适应系统方法不仅避免了制度方法的各种缺点，而且在群体层面特质的文化进化方面提供了额外的解释优势，这些特质源于宗教。
