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The very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship

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Jonathan Haidt
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 19
Psychologist
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New York City
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