The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F24%3A00139316" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/24:00139316 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977" target="_blank" >10.1080/2153599X.2023.2197977</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform

Original language description

Collective ritual is virtually omnipresent across past and present human cultures and is thought to play an essential role in facilitating cooperation, yet little is known about its evolution in the hominin lineage. We examine whether collective ritual could have evolved as a complex signaling system facilitating mutualistic cooperation under socio-ecological pressures in the Pleistocene. Specifically, we identify similarity, coalitional, and commitment signals as the building blocks of the contemporary signaling systems in hunter-gatherers and trace the presence of these signals in non-human primates and the hominin archaeological and paleoanthropological record. Next, we establish the underlying cognitive mechanisms facilitating these signals and review the evidence of the earliest presence of these mechanisms as well as evidence for selective pressures on the evolution of cooperative communication. The synthesis of these streams of evidence suggests that ritualized cooperative signals might have first evolved in the Early Pleistocene in the form of similarity signals, whereas coalitional and commitment signals would start appearing in the early and late Middle Pleistocene until, eventually, coalescing into a signaling system. By the arrival of H. sapiens, it is possible that collective ritual as a staged and repetitively performed signaling act constituted an important adaptation facilitating collective action.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-18316S" target="_blank" >GA18-18316S: The Evolution of Ritual Behavior as a Communication Technology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Religion, Brain & Behavior

ISSN

2153-599X

e-ISSN

2153-5981

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

377-399

UT code for WoS article

001036428100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85165680387