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January 24, 2013

Dance, Pray, Chant: Evolution of Human Rituals

Dan Jones, Nature News


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By July 2011, when Brian McQuinn made the 18-hour boat trip from Malta to the Libyan port of Misrata, the bloody uprising against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had already been under way for five months.

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TAGGED: Human evolution, culture, social animals, rituals

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