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Keeping Together in Time Dance and Drill in Human History

William H. McNeill

Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In

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It discussed the importance of synchrony, particularly in groups and how it created a sense of unity and belonging.

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There's a wonderful book called ''Keeping Together in Time'' by William McNeil. He was either he signed up or he was drafted into World War II training at a camp in Texas. They're marching up and down...

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It discussed the importance of synchrony, particularly in groups and how it created a sense of unity and belonging.

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There's a wonderful book called ''Keeping Together in Time'' by William McNeil. He was either he signed up or he was drafted into World War II training at a camp in Texas. They're marching up and down with wooden guns because they don't have real guns. And at first it seemed stupid to him, but after a few days his unit gets it. And when they can, they're like a unit, they're like a centipede, they're imperfect, you know, it was like a loss of self, it was ecstatic.

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