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Well 5oK yrs ago, we did not have as complex verbal behavior, because for one thing, if we had textual behavior (a sub type of verbal behavior), it was pretty rudimentary.  I imagine that our brains have evolved somewhat since then, as I would guess that persons who had more complex verbal skills would have had differential advantages in surviving to reproduction.

I think cohesion would have lead to more survival of persons in large groups, but cohesion is probably a product, in large part, of our much more ancient basic characteristics of our social behaviors.  Maybe the advent of agrarian societies just set the occasion for larger groups to be together and thereby to develop cohesion.  i.e., Cohesion may have naturally developed when larger groups came to be.  Ideas about tradition and purity?  Uh that probably evolved culturally somewhere along the way.

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