Epstein Secrets

hers are extending this cog- nitive model, finding additional thought processes that they say make religious belief natural. For example, Bloom and Jesse 5 2 eF Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on November 25. 2009 786 6 NOVEMBER 2009 VOL 326 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org pubtethedayams EFTA0073

ts dis- miss the cognitive model as speculation. Yet there have been some stirrings of interdisci- plinary activity. Archaeologist Steven Mithen of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom has suggested that the half- human, half-animal paintings and carvings of the Paleolithic demonstrate that early Homo sapien

hers are extending this cog- nitive model, finding additional thought processes that they say make religious belief natural. For example, Bloom and Jesse 5 2 eF Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on November 25. 2009 786 6 NOVEMBER 2009 VOL 326 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org pubtethedayams EFTA0074

ts dis- miss the cognitive model as speculation. Yet there have been some stirrings of interdisci- plinary activity. Archaeologist Steven Mithen of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom has suggested that the half- human, half-animal paintings and carvings of the Paleolithic demonstrate that early Homo sapien

hers are extending this cog- nitive model, finding additional thought processes that they say make religious belief natural. For example. Bloom and Jesse Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on November 25, 2009 786 6 NOVEMBER 2009 VOL 326 SCIENCE www.sciencemag.org Published byAAAS EFTA_R1_0147125

ts dis- miss the cognitive model as speculation. Yet there have been some stirrings of interdisci- plinary activity. Archaeologist Steven Mithen of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom has suggested that the half- human. half-animal paintings and carvings of the Paleolithic demonstrate that early Homo sapien