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Religious thought and behaviour as by-products of brain function
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Metadata
- Authors
- Boyer, P.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-03
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 119-124
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2161193367
- Cited by
- 534
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 4.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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