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“The descriptions of tribal rituals themselves usually exhibit features that we could characterize as play; such ritual is very much embodied as in singing, dancing, feasting, and general hilarity, but there is also a powerful element of pretend play that can have serious meanings.”

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Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“In an important sense, all culture is one: human beings today owe something to every culture that has gone before us.”

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Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“The myths are an effort to understand the nature of reality. Their narrators must use the analogies that lie at hand, analogies from their own social experience, with all its inner tensions and inconsistencies.”

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Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“Technological advance at high speed combined with moral blindness about what we are doing to the world's societies and to the biosphere is a recipe for rapid extinction.”

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Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“We have proven to be enormously successful at adapting. We are now adapting so fast that we can hardly adapt to our adaptation.”

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Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

“The more complex, the more fragile. Complexity goes against the second law of thermodynamics, that all complex entities tend to fall apart, and it takes more and more energy for complex systems to function.”

Technology Environment Evolution Civilization Adaptation Evolutionary Mismatch

Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age

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