Big Gods and costly rituals coevolved to enhance cooperation and outcompete rivals
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- Moralizing gods and costly rituals coevolved to boost in-group cooperation and out-compete rivals. (similarity 0.85)
- Big Gods and large-scale cooperation mutually reinforced each other’s expansion (similarity 0.82)
- Costly rites mobilize male solidarity and spread culturally through intergroup competition. (similarity 0.81)
- Group expansion drives religion toward moral, demanding, interventionist gods (similarity 0.80)
- Gods and governments serve interchangeable functions of surveillance, comfort, and control (similarity 0.80)
- Prosocial religions outcompeted rivals through group solidarity advantages in warfare (similarity 0.80)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.80)
- Big Gods were necessary but not sufficient for group expansion. (similarity 0.80)
- Cooperation-focused strategies fail where conditions for cooperation are themselves absent (similarity 0.79)
- Written records reveal religions evolving toward moralizing Big Gods with scale (similarity 0.79)
- Big Gods prevalence should increase with group size (similarity 0.79)
- Secular societies now compete against religiously organized cooperation (similarity 0.79)
- Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault. (similarity 0.79)
- Supernatural watchers and rituals jointly forged large-scale moral communities (similarity 0.78)
- Hegemony builds collective will by articulating differences, not erasing them (similarity 0.78)