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"—

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

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"—

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

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"—

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