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ong way from explaining the complex systems of gods and rituals that make up religion. Cognitive researchers face what has come to be called the "Mickey Mouse" problem: The Disney character Mickey Mouse has supernatural powers, but no one worships or would Social circuits. When subjects in an fMRI scann
behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of
ong way from explaining the complex systems of gods and rituals that make up religion. Cognitive researchers face what has come to be called the "Mickey Mouse" problem: The Disney character Mickey Mouse has supernatural powers, but no one worships or would Social circuits. When subjects in an fMRI scann
behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of
ong way from explaining the complex systems of gods and rituals that make up religion. Cognitive researchers face what has come to be called the "Mickey Mouse" problem: The Disney character Mickey Mouse has supernatural powers, but no one worships or would • Acfon mollifying • Sellkno•ledge • Person p
behavior. They, too, stress religion's social component. "Religion is a particular form of a larger, social symbolic behavior," says archaeologist Colin Renfrew of the Univer- sity of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. So archaeologists explore early religion by excavating sites that reveal the beginnings of
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