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How Religion Evolved with Robin Dunbar
Factually! with Adam Conover
Is Religion Increasing Your Number of Offspring?
Religion has many other benefits to us apart from that, in terms of our social organization. People actually feel that it has efficacy, a supernatural efficacy, in their lives. And i think you can see anything that helps you bind the group together dramatically improves your ability to survive and reproduce successfully. That kind of thing happens all the time - look at how computers invented crunching for example. We're driven by one particular function or purpose but once they're in place, they open up other opportunities.
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