Exploring the Origin of Religion:
Jane Goodall’s Gomba Reserve Tanzania: Correspondent Justin Hall journeys to find the Influential voices from both the scientific and religious worlds and opens debate over the origin of religious behaviour.
Is religion the strict domain of the human species or can science prove a more primitive origin?
Question: Are we the only species to look at the stars and wonder?…
In recoiling from a crack of thunder or marvelling at a beautiful site…are we the only ones to question the mystery of powers greater than our own?
Jane Goodall’s Seminal work with great apes and the chimpanzees of Gomba carefully documented many observations; tool-use by a species other than our own was a major revelation… but there have been others…
This primetime story for Explorer covers a lot of ground and draws on multiple sources and perspectives: from a fundamentalist Christian Pastor sitting in the pews of his church to an
Oxford Professor of Paleoanthropology thumbing through early evidence of human ritual and burials… Ancient archaeological sites and jungle locations all add to the scope and wonder of this fascinating investigation.
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