Next in The Big Story: (Biology, the Brain and History) This video has been selected as one of the TED Ed Best Flips. Subscribe to stay up to date with new videos. *** Sources: The Forest People, by Colin M Turnbull, 1961 The Old Way: A Story of the First People, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, 2006 The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright, 2009 Additional Reading: “Evolutionary origin of religions,“ Wikipedia The Dawn of Belief: Religon in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, Chapters 4~7, by D Bruce Dickson, 1990 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, by Émile Durkheim, 1915 Script adapted from here: Narrator: Soundtrack:
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