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Social evolution: The ritual animal

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Praying, fighting, dancing, chanting — human rituals could illuminate the growth of community and the origins of civilization.

By July 2011, when Brian McQuinn made the 18-hour boat trip from Malta to the Libyan port of Misrata, the bloody uprising against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had already been under way for five months.

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