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An Altar-making Ape

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Re: An Altar-making Ape

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lehelvandor wrote:Interestingly, results of a major international study was just published... the fact that this ape has some instinctive inclination toward various altar building activities has been postulated by many in the past, but nice to see a study confirming it...
Also, it seems that, unsurprisingly, where there is social interaction that can lower or even eliminate the ancestral beneficial effect of that instinctive inclination, then the altar building is much less prevalent...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... study.html
I agree that we instinctively seek a Godlike or great father-like ideal to follow. It is tied to us wanting to be the fittest.

Freud and Jung called it the Father Complex.

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