Two LEVYNA Team Members Receive Prestigious Awards
We are delighted to share that two members of the LEVYNA team have recently received major awards recognizing their outstanding research.
Three evolutionary radiations shaped the evolution of global religious diversity
Recent article in journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, where LEVYNA members contributed data, asks whether religious denominations accumulate gradually or are generated in rapid bursts associated with specific historical events.
The paper uses computational phylogenetic methods that treat major religious traditions as evolving lineages and models relation of 291 historical religious groups from Indo-Iranian, Islamic, and Judeo-Christian traditions. The analysis then tests for shifts in the birth rate of those individual denominations. We found evidence for birth rate shifts in the Islamic and Judeo-Christian families, corresponding to at least three separate events that have shaped global religious diversity.
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