> I think all this was covered in Sawyer's Hominid.
> The main point of my starting the thread, however, lies > in the controversy that no one knows how many Neanderthals > were, in fact, atheists.
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If the theories about Neandertals that Steven Baxter uses in _Origin_ and _Evolution_ are true, then they all were. They lacked the symbolic thinking skills it would take to believe in a god or gods.
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