Zimmerman's theory as evolutionary psychology

As a reminder, Zimmerman's theory of the great leap forward some 50,000+ years ago is that a confluence of two cultural phenomena could be enough to explain it. In this case, I have ventured that it could be ecstasy and ritual, or, in other terms, religion. What was lacking in this overall explanation was a plausible brain evolution corresponding to that theory. Well, an article in Scientific American dated 20 July 2011 by Katherine Harmon, Fast Evolving Brains Helped Humans out of the Stone Age, sheds some light on the subject:

A traditional, more passive take on evolutionary psychology "fails to recognize that humans are changing their environment," and not at all randomly or haphazardly, Laland says. "We've built environments that are well suited to our biology, so we don't find ourselves massively maladapted for the contemporary world."

The view then, in my terms, is that the discovery of religion would itself lead to compatible changes in the molding of the environment. Henceforth, caves in the South of France some 30,000 years ago and cathedrals in the modern time.

Talking of Computer Theology, the picture in the article is that of a computer drawn over parietal art. Of course, parietal art is on the cover of Computer Theology. We missed the computer though ... reparation done.

Bertrand du Castel