Religions decrease fitness of the host, but increase evolutionary innovation of the species. Just like transposons. This can very much make a species evolve to extinction. (Actually I am not sure if that means it is actually decreasing fitness of the host as well. It just makes the hosts fitness function more convex over long timescales)
Religions decrease fitness of the host, but increase evolutionary innovation of the species. Just like transposons. This can very much make a species evolve to extinction. (Actually I am not sure if that means it is actually decreasing fitness of the host as well. It just makes the hosts fitness function more convex over long timescales)