Podlipodcast player Webplayer

ReligionForBreakfast

ReligionForBreakfast

The Evolutionary Origins of Ritual

ReligionForBreakfast · Nov 11, 2026 · 23:35

0:0023:35

Listen in the Podli app 🎧

Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.

Want to restore the planet's ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code RELIGION8 will get the first month paid for by me: https://planetwild.com/r/religionforbreakfast/join/8 If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission fighting ocean plastic: https://planetwild.com/r/religionforbreakfast/m34/8 Uploaded 20-08-26Thumbnail design by ​⁠ @ECHenry Collective ritual shows up in every human society, and it’s often expensive, exhausting, painful, or time-consuming. From a simplistic evolutionary perspective, it is difficult to envision why humans started doing these behaviors. Scholars Martin Lang and Radek Kundt argue it evolved out of three older signaling behaviors. This video follows those pieces back through human evolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episodes: ReligionForBreakfast

PodliGet the free Podli app
↓ App