The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

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Noted science writer Nicholas Wade offers for the first time a convincing case based on a broad range of scientific evidence for the evolutionary basis of religion.

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Fascinating. I first read the book because I wondered why people go to church. What is it about religion that draws people together. I just could not understand it. Thanks to Nicholas Wade he has answered my question. Gayle
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Dharmendra Desai
January 22, 2016
Scholarly yet not boring detailed yet not long winding,
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About the author

Nicholas Wade received a BA in natural sciences from King’s College, Cambridge. He was the deputy editor of Nature magazine in London and then became that journal’s Washington correspondent. He joined Science magazine in Washington as a reporter and later moved to The New York Times, where he has been an editorial writer, concentrating on issues of defense, space, science, medicine, technology, genetics, molecular biology, the environment, and public policy, a science reporter, and a science editor.

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