{"id":7982,"date":"2016-02-15T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T09:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2016-04-03T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:56:09","slug":"2016-03-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-03-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Ron Gerber<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>March 20, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When our ancestors lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, they evolved with emotional instincts for loyalty to their tribe and aggression toward other tribes. Later, when humans settled into large communities, some new behaviors were required, and religion was an evolutionary adaptation for this new social environment. These groupish instincts are with us still and are contributing to our religious and political polarization. Humanist Community member Ron Gerber will discuss the writers Nicholas Wade&#8217;s and Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s review of our evolutionary history and suggestions for resolving our current predicament.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Evolutionary_psychology_10.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to see the slides that were\u00a0presented at this Forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161332350\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/161332350\">Humanist Community Forum (2016-03-20): Evolutionary Psychology (Ron Gerber)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Gerber March 20, 2016 When our ancestors lived in nomadic hunter-gatherer tribes, they evolved with emotional instincts for loyalty to their tribe and aggression toward other tribes. Later, when humans settled into large communities, some new behaviors were required, and religion was an evolutionary adaptation for this new social environment. These groupish instincts are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2016-03-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evolutionary Psychology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}