God remains a viable hypothesis as the prime mover, however undefinable and untestable that conception may be. - Edward O. Wilson

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

Early human beings... filled a special ecological niche: they were carnivorous primates of the African plains. ...When agriculture permitted the increase of population density, game was no longer abundant... carnivorism remained a basic dietary impulse, with cultural aftereffects that varied according to the special conditions of the environment in which the society evolved.

Cultural change is the statistical product of the separate behavioral responses of large numbers of human beings who cope as best they can with social existence.