How Religion Evolved with Robin Dunbar
Factually! with Adam Conover
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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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