The construction of the socio-cognitive niche in ancestral human populations involved the expansion of informal religious activities or 'wild traditions' that featured leaders with supernatural qualities, such as shamans, who ritually induced altered states of consciousness to provide healing and divination services.

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  Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution

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• altered states of consciousness concept
• healing concept
• shaman concept
• human socio-cognitive niche concept