Interesting talk, though a lot was not that new. I am inclined to think that there is a little more genetic determinism in the origins of religion than she does, and her conclusion at the end that religion is a almost entirely cultural emergence, is a little too strong. But my differences with her on that point are very slight and nuanced, and well within the range of tolerance, so that I would not want to disagree enough to put my none specialist status to the test.

Though I do think, that her compounding in one or two places in the talk however, of religion with morality, show a preconception, derived from what is probably her own religious culture, which is not strictly justified. Speaking in several places of, empathy for example, as associated with religion. Which means of course that if you want to claim as she does that, empathy is associated with religion, and is mainly a cultural thing, then you have to deny that it has genetic origin, which I think may well be the reason she is forced to distance herself from genetic determinism, to a degree not really reasonable.

And yet another article you deliberately misread.

Pigeons have been shown to create ritualized behaviors as a result of incedental behaviors prior to a stimulus.

I did not watch it all but it is very interesting.

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