Transport o tools and mental representation: Is Capuchin monkey tool behaviour a useful model of Plio-Pleistocene hominid technology?

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 365-377

  Jalles Filho, Euphly ^a   Teixeira Da Cunha, Rogério Grassetto ^b   Salm, Rodolfo Aureliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cebus; Plio Pleistocene hominids; Tool use; Transport of tools

Indexed keywords

PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRIMATE; TOOL USE;

CEBIDAE; CEBUS; HOMINIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CEBIDAE; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOMINID; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEBUS; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035348245     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2000.0461     Document Type: Article

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