Assertion: original adaptation | /r/CapableOf | opt to produce religion
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text: The hypothesis that religion, to use one of Gould's (1991) examples, is an exaptation would seem to require a specification of (a) the original adaptations or by-products that were co-opted to produce religion; (b) the causal mechanism responsible for the co-opting (e.g., natural selection or an existing motivational mechanism); and (c) the exapted biological function of religion, if any; that is, the manner in which it contributes to the solution to an adaptive problem of survival or reproduction.