On the development of biologically specific beliefs: the case of inheritance.

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  Child Development

• Publication date

  1989-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2307/1130729PMID 2737013
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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