--Posted By johannes to <http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/09/superstitions-evolved-to-help-us.htm>monochrom at 9/10/2008 08:45:00 PM
Darwin never warned against crossing black cats,
walking under ladders or stepping on cracks in
the pavement, but his theory of natural selection
explains why people believe in such nonsense. The
tendency to falsely link cause to effect a
superstition is occasionally beneficial, l,
says Kevin Foster, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University.
<http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn14694-superstitions-evolved-to-help-us-survive.html?feedId=online-news_rss20>Link
