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Jack et al. report an interesting result concerning Mithen’s proposed leakage across cognitive domains. It seems these are old enough for a dedicated inhibition to have evolved, limiting but not suppressing the excesses of magic and religion.
As far as I’m aware not one of Medlyn & De Kauwe’s controlled experiments ran anything near Keenan et al.’s two decades. It seems to me they repeat the recurrent error in medicine of confusing the directly observable, short-term effects of something with its permanent, long term effect as a result of homoeostasis. Here too as with e.g. salt organisms seem to adapt to external influences over time.