As societies become agricultural, theythey take over larger, larger amounts of land. And your ideais then that they move from this kind of smaller group bonding to having to have some other control mechanism. He talls a bit about the moralizing high god. The transition created by the neo lithic when people start living in villages. So whar you find in unter gatherers, universally, even to day, is these kind of shermanic, transe base religions.
Robin Dunbar has been hailed as one of the most insightful and creative evolutionary thinkers of our time, famed for his work on human networks and communities (he came up with the Dunbar number, the idea that humans can have no more than 150 meaningful relationships). Now he turns his attention to religion, the subject of his recent book, How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures. Joining Robin in conversation on the podcast is Stuart Ritchie, Psychologist at King's College London, and author of Science Fictions.
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