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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

CHAPTER

The Conquest of the Tropics

In places like Papua New Guinea you might see this enormous heterogeneity of languages because these close-knit groups they're able to self-provision, they don't trade so they don't assimilate. That itself may explain some of the very high rates of violence we see with outrading for example. Because this is also exactly where the- So how did the conquest relate to the climate instability and the rainfall? I think they were just forced to move by the collapse of the climate generally. A lot of them are coming out of Europe actually. At least it seems particularly the big problem in the eastern Mediterranean was these very strange people called the Sea People. The Egyptians kind of had a couple

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