Pascal Boyer is the Henry Luce Professor of Individual and Collective Memory at Washington University. His research is aimed at describing neuron-cognitive systems naturally integrated in human minds because of evolution or natural selection and also aimed at supporting the acquisition of cultural knowledge, concepts, and norms. He advocates the idea that human instincts provide us with basis for intuitive theory of mind that guides our social relations, morality, and predilections towards religious beliefs, and he stresses the innate mental systems of humans that make them predisposed to certain cultural elements like belief in supernatural beings. His most recent work is the book titled, Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought.