Author: Steve Stewart-Williams
Steve Stewart-Williams is associate professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Originally from New Zealand, his writing and research cover a diverse range of topics, including the placebo effect, the evolution of human altruism and mating behavior, and the philosophical implications of evolutionary theory. He is the author of the book Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew (2010).
On the Origin of Afterlife Beliefs by Means of Memetic Selection
Modern evolutionary approaches permit far richer naturalistic explanations of the phenomenon of belief in an afterlife than the conjectures of a century and more ago.