«Religion is a byproduct of many different evolutionary functions that organized our brains for day - to - day activity» (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
It turns out this delay serves an important evolutionary function, says Michael Frank of Brown University. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
So the idea that [reproduction] is a complete explanation sets up a resistance in a lot of people [to questions such as] why is it that these emotions have evolved, and what evolutionary function do they serve? (scientificamerican.com)