The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative
signaling platform

J 2024

The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform

LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT

Základní údaje

Originální název

The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform

Autoři

LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT

Vydání

Religion, Brain & Behavior, London, Taylor & Francis, 2024, 2153-599X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.400

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139316

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

African hominins; collective ritual; complex signaling systems; cooperative communication; mutualistic cooperation; neurocognitive mechanisms; pleistocene

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 6. 3. 2025 11:25, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

Collective ritual is virtually omnipresent across past and present human cultures and is thought to play an essential role in facilitating cooperation, yet little is known about its evolution in the hominin lineage. We examine whether collective ritual could have evolved as a complex signaling system facilitating mutualistic cooperation under socio-ecological pressures in the Pleistocene. Specifically, we identify similarity, coalitional, and commitment signals as the building blocks of the contemporary signaling systems in hunter-gatherers and trace the presence of these signals in non-human primates and the hominin archaeological and paleoanthropological record. Next, we establish the underlying cognitive mechanisms facilitating these signals and review the evidence of the earliest presence of these mechanisms as well as evidence for selective pressures on the evolution of cooperative communication. The synthesis of these streams of evidence suggests that ritualized cooperative signals might have first evolved in the Early Pleistocene in the form of similarity signals, whereas coalitional and commitment signals would start appearing in the early and late Middle Pleistocene until, eventually, coalescing into a signaling system. By the arrival of H. sapiens, it is possible that collective ritual as a staged and repetitively performed signaling act constituted an important adaptation facilitating collective action.

Návaznosti

GA18-18316S, projekt VaV

Název: Evoluce rituálního chování jako komunikační technologie

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Evoluce rituálního chování jako komunikační technologie

Citovat

LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform. Religion, Brain & Behavior. London: Taylor & Francis, 2024, roč. 14, č. 4, s. 377-399. ISSN 2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977.

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LANG, Martin a Radek KUNDT. The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform. \textit{Religion, Brain \&{} Behavior}. London: Taylor \&{} Francis, 2024, roč.~14, č.~4, s.~377-399. ISSN~2153-599X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977.

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