In fairness, the “left hand” thing has to do with toilet hygiene pre-toilet paper, so at one time it had actual health implications.
That’s why I brought it up—it’s in the category of “reality-based behavior norms enforcement”, which has much greater initial selection pressure (or support) than non-reality-based behavior norms enforcement.
Animals without language are capable of behavioral norms enforcement, even learned norms enforcement. It’s not parsimonious to presume that religion-like beliefs would not evolve as a subset of speech-behavior norms enforcement, in turn as a subset of general behavior norms enforcement.
I guess I was just pointing out that it seemed to be in a different category (“reality-based behavior norms enforcement” is as good a name as any) than the other examples.
In fairness, the “left hand” thing has to do with toilet hygiene pre-toilet-paper, so at one time it had actual health implications.
That’s why I brought it up—it’s in the category of “reality-based behavior norms enforcement”, which has much greater initial selection pressure (or support) than non-reality-based behavior norms enforcement.
Animals without language are capable of behavioral norms enforcement, even learned norms enforcement. It’s not parsimonious to presume that religion-like beliefs would not evolve as a subset of speech-behavior norms enforcement, in turn as a subset of general behavior norms enforcement.
[Edit: removed “enfrorcement” typo]
I guess I was just pointing out that it seemed to be in a different category (“reality-based behavior norms enforcement” is as good a name as any) than the other examples.