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Ritualization is a behavior that occurs typically in a member of a given species in a highly stereotyped fashion and independent of any direct physiological significance. It is found, in differing forms, both in non-human animals and in humans.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Ritualization | is a | behavior that occurs typically in a member of a given species in a highly stereotyped fashion and independent of any direct physiological significance | 0.90 | text |
| water shrews | instance of | working with greylag geese and other animals | 0.80 | text |
| showed that ritualization was an important process in their development | instance of | working with greylag geese and other animals | 0.80 | text |
| Pascal Boyer | instance of | has taken a less functional view of ritual with her elaboration of ritualization.More recently scholars interested in the cognitive science of religion | 0.80 | text |
| Pierre Liénard | instance of | has taken a less functional view of ritual with her elaboration of ritualization.More recently scholars interested in the cognitive science of religion | 0.80 | text |
| and William W | instance of | has taken a less functional view of ritual with her elaboration of ritualization.More recently scholars interested in the cognitive science of religion | 0.80 | text |
| predation | instance of | systems | 0.80 | text |
| contagion | instance of | systems | 0.80 | text |
| and disgust in human minds | instance of | systems | 0.80 | text |
| the domestication of plants | instance of | were turned into ritual scripts by professional guilds only several thousand years ago with advancement in technology | 0.80 | text |
| animals | instance of | were turned into ritual scripts by professional guilds only several thousand years ago with advancement in technology | 0.80 | text |
| literacy | instance of | were turned into ritual scripts by professional guilds only several thousand years ago with advancement in technology | 0.80 | text |
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