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* Organized religion emerged as means of maintaining peace between unrelated individuals.
Bands and tribes consist of small number of related individuals.
However states and nations are composed of thousands or millions of unrelated individuals.
Jared Diamond argues that organized religion served to provide a bond between unrelated individuals who would otherwise be more prone to enmity.
He argues that the leading cause of death among hunter gatherer societies is murder.
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