"List of reasons why" isn't meaningfully different from "list of factors causing X". To ask "why" is to ask for an explanation, and doesn't imply any anthropomorphizing.

This isn’t absolutely obvious, because reason has two different characteristic uses: asking agents their reasons for acting, and asking the reason some event happened. Philosophers have spent a lot of time asking how those two uses are related.

One is called "intentional" explanation; the other, "causal" explanation.

"Why" is shorthand for the minutae of actual selection pressures that take much longer to type out than "why".

>The few correlations our feeble minds just happen to notice are not mystical decisions

This is not an objective fact, it’s your interpretation. People are allowed to believe reality is divine and “anthropomorphism” is a strawman. Something you’re doing in your head and projecting onto others.

Um, we are talking about people, right? So 'anthropomorphising' is maybe not the word we wanted here?