How religion evolved and why it endures, with Robin Dunbar | Humanists UK Convention 2023

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  @erfan74ir · 3 years ago

  very fascinating and informative lecture. However, why does the camera just show the speakers but not the slides which contain all the info about the lecturer's notes?

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• GL

  @globalvillage423 · 2 years ago

  He is right when he says that social life can be stressful, people can be really nasty and horrible.

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• IA

  @ianbanks3016 · 3 years ago

  I think most don't care whether it's true or not, they just like the comfort the delusion brings.

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• HE

  @helgavierich4762 · 1 year ago

  mythology predated formalized religions... What found among the Kalahari hunter-gatherers was that mythological stories seem to have served to provide various (often amusing) explanations for the existence of living creatures, the universe, and even in providing a model for “good” human behaviour.  There is also the mystery of dreams and hallucinations...and mythology and religion both frequently feature “visions” or trances.

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• PO

  @poesie6279 · 3 years ago

  You could say any social dancing community creates numerous friends and good health

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• LU

  @luizr.5599 · 3 years ago

  It'd have been good to see the slides

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• FL

  @flatoutt1 · 1 year ago

  it never ceases to amaze me &nbsp;,when new people of interest come onto the radar .how have i never heard of this bloke before .he&apos;s a gem <br>i live in a town of a few thousand in nsw aus . and i still meet people that have lived here all their life to.

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• EL

  @ELECTRIC-HERITIC · 4 months ago

  Gods must inhabit the gaps in our scientific knowledge. &nbsp;As our knowledge grows gods have less room to justify their existence.

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• GL

  @globalvillage423 · 2 years ago

  Problem with my former religion is that it severely constrained my freedom. I had to leave because of my need for freedom, to loosen up unbearable constraints.

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• ST

  @stuartgraca · 3 years ago

  The earliest and most lasting bonding agent is sport, a form of competition watched and participated by large groups .

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• HU

  @HuskyInEkistics · 3 years ago

  Thanks!

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• MU

  @mukeshsharma-iq8dp · 3 years ago

  Prof Dunbar, i have an alternative reasoning why hunter gatherers were living in groups 20-50 people. Its a lot to do with food &amp; sheltering resources that limits the range of how far they could forage. Only with the advent of agriculture 8-9K years back that they could build villages &amp; and raise the carrying capacity of the group into the hundreds and later into the thousands which led to towns &amp; cities in Mesopotamia, Uruk, Aztecs, Mohenjo daro-Harappa &amp; even at the Yellow River, China. For your kind reconsideration. But to i support your hypothesis of &gt;50 member hunter gatherer groups disintergrating becoz of social stress...that stress was the food &amp; shelter limitations that were above the &apos;Carrying Capacity&apos; of that population.🙏

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