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Why Are Most Humans Religious? Professor Robin Dunbar

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

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Introduction

Robin Dunbar, evolutionary psychologist and anthropologist. Why are so many people religious? He says it's because we have a relatively long history of being able to engage with transcendental universes through our minds. They can easily be spooked into a kind of sense of some greater spirit that's hovering around you.

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