Assertion: religion | /r/HasProperty | spandrel
Facets:
value: within boyer's hypothesis
type: OTHER
value: in other words
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Stephen Jay Gould, for example, believed that religion was an exaptation or a spandrel, in other words that religion evolved as byproduct of psychological mechanisms that evolved for other reasons.
text: Within Boyer's hypothesis, religion is a "parasite" (or "spandrel") offshoot from cognitive modules, comparable to the way the reading process is parasitic upon language modules.