“Dominance hierarchy is probably as old as mammal societies. Among behaviorally complex mammals, certainly among chimpanzees, patterns recognizably like ethics and politics have appeared, how long ago we don't know, but probably millions of years ago. And mammalian play, the seedbed of later capacities, goes back probably at least as far.” ReligionOrderSocietyCivilizationHierarchy 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 did not come from nowhere. We are embedded in a very deep biological and cosmological history. That history does not determine us, because organisms from the very beginning, and increasingly with each new capacity, have influenced their own fate.” ReligionOrderSocietyCivilizationHierarchy Book:Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age