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Evolutionary approach to knowledge specialists, such as shamans and healers. 1a3430

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PDF Hagen EH, Garfield, ZH, Lightner AD 2025. Heen, shamans, and mothers: Natural and sexual selection for computational services. Evolution and Human Behavior.
LNK Lightner AD and Hagen EH 2022. All models are wrong, and some are religious: Supernatural explanations as abstract and useful falsehoods about complex realities. Human Nature.
PDF Lightner AD, Garfield ZH, Hagen EH 2021. Religion: The WEIRDest concept in the world? Religion, Brain, and Behavior.
PDF Lightner AD, Heckelsmiller C, Hagen EH 2021. Ethnomedical specialists and their supernatural theories of disease. Review of Philosophy and Psychology (under review).
PDF Lightner AD, Heckelsmiller C, Hagen EH 2021. Ethnoscientific expertise and knowledge specialisation in 55 traditional cultures. Evolutionary Human Sciences.