Samuel de Almeida I definitely could have elaborated on that part to make the connection between “reject alternative ways of thinking” and “humans learn by imitation” more clear.

What I meant was, back in our hunter-gatherer days we didn’t question why things were done one way as opposed to another way within our tribes/ groups. We learned how “ insert activity here” was done and we did it that way. This kept us alive and that was the goal.

When a different tribe/ group came into contact with ours and had a different way of doing things (and by extension a different way of thinking) our group would reject their method simply because it wasn’t our method. We didn’t know if that was a better way to clean the water or a faster way to catch a parasite and die. Either way- we weren’t risking it.

That’s what I meant by writing we learn by imitation of our peers and reject alternative ways of doing.

Hope that helps, curious to hear if you agree or disagree!