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Bering, J. M. (2004). A critical review of the ‘enculturation hypothesis’: The effects of human rearing on great ape social cognition. Animal Cognition, 7, 201-212.
Bering, J. M. (2004). Natural selection is non-denominational: Why evolutionary models of religion should be more concerned with behavior than concepts. Evolution and Cognition, 10, 126-137.
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