Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society () is a 2002 book by David Sloan Wilson which proposes that religion is a multi-level adaptation—i.e., a product of cultural evolution developed through multi-level selection.Andrew Brown, "'I wanted to show how niceness evolves'", The Guardian, July 24, 2003.Natalie Angier, "A Conversation with David Sloan Wilson; The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View", The New York Times, December 24, 2002. Reception The Journal of the American Academy of Religion called it a "welcome book" because "it unsettles everybody, evolutionary biologist and religious believer alike"."Review: Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society", Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2004) 72 (3): 800-802. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfh079 Jared Diamond in the New York Review of Books called it a "thought-provoking book" which "will stimulate each reader to examine his or her personal view of religion's future".Jared Diamond, "The Religious Success Story", The New York Review of Books, November 7, 2002
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