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How punitive, omniscient gods may have encouraged the expansion of human society

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imageWith moralistic gods watching, it's easier to be fair and cooperative.Olivier, CC BY-NC-ND

For the bulk of our evolutionary history, human groups were small, tightly knit communities. Only quite recently, some human groups started evolving into the large-scale societies with vast interconnected trade networks we know today. Urban areas in...

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