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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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Are Men's Clubs Helping Children?

Small scale societies have mechanisms that attempt to create this sense of belonging, if not to the whole community. But most seem to be just men going off raiding cattle - but other people don't count because they're cattle. So you see these kind of men's clubs being formed in hunter-gatherer societies and the transition into village settlement life. And it seems as though it's one of the key ways we've figured out how cultural institutions work.

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