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When did religious consciousness begin to emerge among human ancestors? Why do scientists even find so-called mythical behavior in pigeons? And what did the world's oldest religious rite look like? In the new episode of "Drobyshevsky. Homo sapiens," Stanislav Drobyshevsky talks about how belief in the supernatural emerged among the ancients. 00:00 "Old Believers from the Cave" 01:09 Why is it difficult for scientists to define religion? 03:00 About artifacts and religious objects found by anthropologists 08:30 What did Skinner's "pigeon experiment" show? 10:00 How did mythical behavior develop in primates and human ancestors? 13:43 About the red "religious" pebbles of Australopithecus 15:03 "Dark Ages": What happened to religion and culture after the Australopithecus? 20:16 About the world's oldest religious rites in the Bryunikel Cave We thank the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 2 for their help in filming the episode Subscribe to @RTVI Entertainment and like RTVI News — all the main events in 24/7 format: / myrtvi