„Und er wusste auch, dass es unhöflich gewesen wäre, sich mit der Hand den Mund zu wischen (…)“

„Dann gingen seine Erinnerungen in Träume über.“

„Manche Jungen behaupteten, sie sei verrückt, aber das bezweifelte er.“

„A central claim of this book has been that the evolution of religion is underpinned by the mystical stance, a capacity that depends in part...

„First, Moralizing High Gods were a late development (…). Second, preceding this, there was often a long phase of ritual complexity and propitiatory worship based...

„Taken together, these various studies suggest that attending a religious service and engaging in the rituals involved does activate the endorphin system, and this enhances...

„In animal play, the combination of rapid, vigorous, often jerky movements combined with a great deal of physcial contact, mouthing and rough-and-tumble is about as...

„There seems to be something that is psychologically very fundamental about the size and stability of a community size of around 150.“