Teach these souls to fly: Supernatural as human adaptation

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 99-118

  Solomon, Sheldon ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b   Pyszczynski, Tom ^c   Cohen, Florette ^d   Ogilvie, Daniel M ^e  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e Rutgers Univ   (United States)

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