Arboreal clambering and the evolution of self-conception

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 393-421

  Povinelli, Daniel J ^a   Cant, John G H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HOMINID; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LOCOMOTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029445138     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/419170     Document Type: Review

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