Shankar Vedantam

If you've taken part in a religious service, have you ever stopped to think about how people become believers? Where do the rituals come from? And what purpose does it all serve? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode with social psychologist Azim Shariff. He argues that we should consider religion from a Darwinian perspective, as an innovation that helped human societies to grow and flourish.

Social psychologist Azim Shariff argues that religion should be considered as an innovation that helped human societies grow and flourish from a Darwinian perspective.

Creating God