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> at one point in the distant past, before ancient Greece and even Egypt, there was a global society that all shared very similar ideas regarding religion Do y
by KineticLensman 7y ago
> at one point in the distant past, before ancient Greece and even Egypt, there was a global society that all shared very similar ideas regarding religion
Do you mean a single global human culture? We don't even know whether religion came before agriculture or the other way round. Citation really needed here.
- twirlip 7y agoExcavations at Göbekli Tepe indicate that religion may have predated agriculture, perhaps dating back to the end of the Pleistocene. If a neurological basis for religion exists, such structures would hint at an evolutionary selection which made religion advantageous for survival. I don't know anything about a single founding culture, but reading about Indo-European root words fires up one's imagination.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoIf a neurological basis for religion exists, shouldn't religion date at least as far back as modern humans, ~300kY ago ?
- dragonwriter 7y agoNo, among other errors this assumes that anatomically modern humans are equivalent to neurologically modern humans, which is unsupported supposition.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoBut they are, since neurology is part of anatomy ?
- dragonwriter 7y ago“anatomically modern” refers to gross anatomy as evidenced in the fossil record.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoHm, wouldn't we see skull changes ?