Radical Anthropology<p>Here's Chris Knight's key article on <a href="https://c.im/tags/ritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ritual</span></a>/speech coevolution as matrix and scaffold of <a href="https://c.im/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trust</span></a> across <a href="https://c.im/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speech</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/communites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communites</span></a>. In 1998 he posited 130,000 years, and today it needs pushing back, coinciding with our process of speciation. At least the Chomsky crew here are conceding earlier dates for the critical transition to <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> (they used to argue it was in the region 50-70,000 years wgo, which is now looking dumb).</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/ritualspeechcoevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ritualspeechcoevolution</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cooperation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/communication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communication</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247414480_Ritualspeech_coevolution_a_solution_to_the_problem_of_deception" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">researchgate.net/publication/2</span><span class="invisible">47414480_Ritualspeech_coevolution_a_solution_to_the_problem_of_deception</span></a></p>