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This paper argued that intelligent design has been more important in the formation of grist ( technologies, practices, ideas ) than of mills ( cognitive mechanisms ).
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Testing cognitive gadgets
About: This article is published in Mind & Language. The article was published on 28 Jul 2019. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Evolutionary psychology & Psychological nativism.
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