Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief
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Stone Throwing Chimpanzees in West Africa
Will herod has a novel and highly speculative theory. He thinks its some kind of proto ethical behavior, a way to deal with their bottled up anger from getting bullied by those alpha chimps in the group. Can we ever know why they throw these stones, what they're thinking about, and why do they sometimes just sit and stare at a waterfall? This is where science may reach its limits.
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