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A biology professor and author of Malignant Sadness offers a scientific analysis of the nature of belief, examining both its psychological basis and potential evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect, and discusses what science reveals about everyday beliefs that give meaning to experience, religious faith, and paranormal beliefs.
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"'Brilliant and persuasive search for the source of our need to believe.' Sunday Times"
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert is a groundbreaking popular science book, examining the evolutionary origins of belief.
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