> Ritualistic gatherings sharpened mental focus, he argues. Over time, this focus strengthened the mind’s ability to connect symbols and meanings, eventually causing gene mutations that favored the enhanced memory we now possess
Mediation causing germline mutations?
Between people lighting their farts on the flames, kids giggling when they char-broil animal feces on a stick, and prehistoric stand-up comics working the first “night clubs”, I don’t think anyone had time to “meditate”. ;’)