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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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How to Scale Up Social Cooperation?

Rituals are our kind of social toolkit, not only between you and I as two individuals, but also for the community as a whole. So they function community bonding as well as dyadic bonding - laughter, singing and dancing and singing here originally without words. And then after the evolution of language, probably around 200,000 or 250,000 years ago, with the appearance of our species, then what you get fairly quickly added in is feasting, eating and drinking,. Tell stories, emotionally wrenching stories, but comedy is good as well because that hits the original old laughter button. In addition to that religion or the rituals of religion, it's not so much religion itself,

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