Epstein Secrets

n toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans, they say, have a tendency to see signs of "agents"—

dence of spiritual life: feasts with wild bulls, burials of ancestors beneath houses, and sometimes the removal and reintennent of skulls. And yet Hodder notes that separating "religion" from other activi- ties seems arbitrary, as it is not clear that the people of Catalhoyiik themselves separated t

ean toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a got says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans, they say, have a tendency to see signs of "agents"—

nce of spiritual life: feasts with wild bulls, burials of ancestors beneath 2 houses, and sometimes the removal and reintennent of skulls. And yet Hodder notes that separating "religion" from other activi- I ties seems arbitrary, as it is not clear that the 5 people of Catalh6ya themselves g separat

n toward a belief in supernatural agents, to something like a god," says experi- mental psychologist Justin Barrett of the Uni- versity of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Barrett and others see the roots of reli- gion in our sophisticated social cognition. Humans, they say, have a tendency to see signs of "agents"—

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