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"—

ndi- viduals, including a 9-year-old child with its legs bent and a deer antler in its arms. And starting about 65,000 years ago or even ear- lier, Neandertals also sometimes buried their dead. Henry de Lumley of the Institut de Paltiontologie Humaine in Paris has referred to these ancient burials as "the

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"—

ndi- viduals, including a 9-year-old child with its legs bent and a deer antler in its arms. And starting about 65,000 years ago or even ear- lier, Neandertals also sometimes buried their dead. Henry de Lumley of the Institut de Paleontologie Humaine in Paris has referred to these ancient burials as "the

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"—

ndi- viduals, including a 9-year-old child with its legs bent and a deer antler in its arms. And starting about 65,000 years ago or even ear- lier, Neandertals also sometimes buried their dead. Henry de Lumley of the Institut de Paleontologic Humaine in Paris has referred to these ancient burials as 'the