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d facilitating this Edge Special Event with Napoleon Chagnon, the last of the great ethnographers.] THE REALITY CLUB: Lionel Tiger, Paul Seabright, Dominic Johnson, Azar Gat, Daniel Everett INTRODUCTION By Richard Dawkins Chagnon's extraordinary body of work will long be mined, not just by anthropologists but

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among religious groups 1s often facilitated by punishment or the implication of punishment from a deity. In a study of 186 societies by the biologist Dominic Johnson, analyses showed that those who believed in a strong moralizing god, capable of doling out punishment, engaged in higher levels of cooperation, inclu

d Press. Zimbardo, P. (2007). The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn evil. New York: Random House. Key references * What’s normal: Cohen, I. L., Liu, X., Lewis, M. E. S., Chudley, A., Forster-Gibson, C., Gonzalez, M., Jenkins, E. C., et al. (2011). Autism severity is associated with ch

idence that distorted optimism can slow disease progression. Positive illusions are, as noted by the biologists Richard Wrangham, Robert Trivers, and Dominic Johnson, a form of self-deception with considerable evolutionary benefits. But like the runaway capacity of desire, so too can our illusions of grandeur runa