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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Retain

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What does retain mean in this sentence?

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"A propensity to learn the religion of one’s community became so firmly implanted in the human neural circuitry, according to this new view, that religion was retained when hunter-gatherers, starting from 15,000 years ago, began to settle in fixed communities."
  

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Hi, kept, not given up Clive

  • Hi, kept, not given up Clive
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Hi,

kept, not given up

Clive

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