The evolution of ritual : Communicating cooperative intentions
drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins

k 2024

The evolution of ritual : Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins

KUNDT, Radek a Martin LANG

Základní údaje

Originální název

The evolution of ritual : Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins

Autoři

KUNDT, Radek a Martin LANG

Vydání

IACESR 2024 (International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion), 28-30 June, 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2024

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60304 Religious studies

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

ritual; evolution; complex signaling system; cooperation

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 2. 2025 18:11, Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová

Anotace

V originále

Collective ritual is one of the universals of the human behavioral repertoire, however, its omnipresence repeatedly puzzled evolutionary scholars because ritual participation requires substantial resource investments while seemingly not providing any apparent immediate benefits. We examine whether collective ritual could have evolved as a complex signaling system facilitating mutualistic cooperation. First, we identify similarity signals, coalitional signals, and signals of commitment to collective action as the main building blocks of the contemporary signaling systems in hunter-gatherers. Second, we trace the presence of possibly homologous cooperative signals in non-human primates and review the archeological record for the earliest evidence of ritualized signals in past hominins. Subsequently, we add the proximate level to our analysis pinpointing the distinctive neurocognitive structures necessary for human ritualized signals and compare their estimated dating with the dating of the increased socio-ecological pressures on collective action in the Pleistocene. Synthesizing this evidence, we sketch a possible timeline for the evolution of ritualized cooperative signals and identify further areas of investigation that would advance this evolutionary model.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1339/2023, interní kód MU

Název: Rozumění rituálu v komparativní perspektivě: kombinace terénního a databázového výzkumu

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Rozumění rituálu v komparativní perspektivě: kombinace terénního a databázového výzkumu

Citovat

KUNDT, Radek a Martin LANG. The evolution of ritual : Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins. In IACESR 2024 (International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion), 28-30 June, 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2024.

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KUNDT, Radek a Martin LANG. The evolution of ritual : Communicating cooperative intentions drove the selection of collective ritual in hominins. In \textit{IACESR 2024 (International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion), 28-30 June, 2024, Oxford, United Kingdom}. 2024.

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