The Big Story: Origins of Religion

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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:
http://www.macrohistory.com/h1/ch00.htm

Narrator:
http://www.matthewkendrick.com/

Soundtrack:
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