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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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Are We Culturally Innovative or Not?

I think that cultural innovation has always been at the group level rather than the individual level so because of social learning and because of social policing we tend to do what everyone else in our group does. I'm not terribly sold on the arguments as I've sort of gathered it which is more secondhand rather than reading the whole thing just dipped into the early chapters of that book. It seems to me that there are some constances which are very surprising which are kind of unexpected which everybody seems to have to grapple with. Only certain community sizes work, only certain charismatic people can marshal Twitter to create an empire.

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