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Bloch believes our ancestors developed the necessary neural architecture to imagine before or around 40-50,000 years ago, at a time called the Upper Palaeological Revolution, the final sub-division of the Stone Age.
Humans alone practice religion because they're the only creatures to have evolved imagination... Bloch challenges the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding...
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