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    Miguel Capó, Marcos Nadal & Camilo J. Cela-Conde

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Capó, M., Nadal, M. & Cela-Conde, C.J. Moral Consilience. Biol Theory 1, 133–135 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1162/biot.2006.1.2.133

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