Status Updates From RITUAL ANIMAL:IMITATION & C...

This book describes a subject still heavily under study with many open questions. As such heavy to read. But some issues like human inborn over-imitation, theory of instrumental stance, and ritual stance are already quite mature.

The book arises also important practical issues: how does the theory apply to solving polarization in climate warming or the two-culture problem of social sciences?

"Although this is a book about the role of ritual in the evolution of social complexity, it is more broadly intended as a model for social theory that is inspired by real world observation while also remaining grounded in the cognitive and evolutionary sciences. More ambitiously still, it is to be hoped that cumulative theory building will have practical benefits for society at large..."