Want to restore the planet's ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 100 people to join Planet Wild with my code RELIGION8 will get the first month paid for by me: https://planetwild.com/r/religionforbreakfast/join/8 If you want to get to know them better first, check out their mission fighting ocean plastic: https://planetwild.com/r/religionforbreakfast/m34/8 Thumbnail design by ​⁠ @ECHenry Collective ritual shows up in every human society, and it’s often expensive, exhausting, painful, or time-consuming. From a simplistic evolutionary perspective, it is difficult to envision why humans started doing these behaviors. Scholars Martin Lang and Radek Kundt argue it evolved out of three older signaling behaviors. This video follows those pieces back through human evolution.