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me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer, counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi
that children are predisposed to think that the mind persists even after the death of the body—something that approaches the idea of an afterlife. Bering showed children ages 4 through 12 years old a puppet show in which a crocodile ate a mouse. Then he asked the children questions about the mouse.
that children learn about 3 the afterlife from others. Working in Spain CI E and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat similar to Bering's, asking g children about the physical and psychological ti states of a person who had died. Older chil- dren and adults were more likely than yo
me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer, counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi
that children are predisposed to think that the mind persists even after the death of the body—something that approaches the idea of an afterlife. Bering showed children ages 4 through 12 years old a puppet show in which a crocodile ate a mouse. Then he asked the children questions about the mouse.
that children learn about 3 the afterlife from others. Working in Spain CI E and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat similar to Bering's, asking g children about the physical and psychological ti states of a person who had died. Older chil- dren and adults were more likely than yo
me researchers suggest that cog- nitive tendencies led to religion, which then took hold and spread because it raised fitness. But others, such as Boyer. counter that this adaptationist explanation is itself light on data. "It is often said that reli- gion encourages or prescribes solidarity withi
that children are predisposed to think that the mind persists even after the death of the body—something that approaches the idea of an afterlife. Bering showed children ages 4 through 12 years old a puppet show in which a crocodile ate a mouse. Then he asked the children questions about the mouse.
ty say that children learn about the afterlife from others. Working in Spain and Madagascar, Harris and colleagues did studies somewhat similar to Bering's, asking children about the physical and psychological states of a person who had died. Older chil- dren and adults were more likely than younger
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