The Big Story: Origins of Religion

Next in The Big Story: http://youtu.be/dAekcGJXKv4 (Biology, the Brain and History) This video has been selected as one of the TED Ed Best Flips. http://ed.ted.com/featured/AyqDI3A9 Subscribe to stay up to date with new videos. *** Sources: The Forest People, by Colin M Turnbull, 1961 The Old Way: A Story of the First People, by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, 2006 The Evolution of God, by Robert Wright, 2009 Additional Reading: "Evolutionary origin of religions," Wikipedia The Dawn of Belief: Religon in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern Europe, Chapters 4~7, by D Bruce Dickson, 1990 The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, by Émile Durkheim, 1915 Script adapted from here: http://www.macrohistory.com/h1/ch00.htm Narrator: http://www.matthewkendrick.com/ Soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/angel-echoes-jon-hopkins-remix