ABSTRACT
When anthropologists in the twentieth century went looking for it, what they found was the exact reverse: an amazing diversity of subtle and unique understandings of the world based on close observations of nature. In contrast to the majority of humanity, they were the independent thinkers. The religions of the independent thinkers had no theologians; instead, they were woven into the fabric of everyday life. That first-hand reporting on the independent thinkers should have only begun so very late in the day was absurd. By the end of the twentieth century, this project of documentation had run its course. There can be no discussion of human nature that does not take into account the worlds of the independent thinkers.
