An interesting item from an article titled, Neurology, Ritual, and Religion: An Initial Exploration:

…[E]thnologist Charles Laughlin and Eugene d’Aquili, a neurologically-trained psychiatrist and anthropologist met in 1972 and together wrote Biogenetic Structuralism in 1974. This book took up the structuralist theory of Claude Levi-Strauss, and intentionally married it to an evolutionary point of view. That is, it argued that culturally universal, invariant structures of language, time and space, dreams, feelings, and some psychopathologies arise from brain structures that are the product of human evolution. To the classic Levi-Strauss/Chomski idea of the existence of “deep structure” within the unconscious that affects human cognition and behavior, they therefore add that these structures are related to specific parts or neural pathways in the brain itself. The human brain is genetically predisposed to organize its experience in particular ways and to develop along predictable paths in a process they called “neurognosis.”