Whether they believe in God, evolutionary biologists may need to pay closer mind to religion. That's because religious beliefs can shape key behaviors in ways that evolutionary theory would not predict, particularly when it comes to dealing with disease, says David Hughes, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. In a presentation here yesterday at the 13th Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Hughes and colleagues reported that some of today's major religions emerged at the same time as widespread infectious diseases, and they propose that the two helped shape one another.


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