Chimpanzees' "pointing": Another error of the argument by analogy?

Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 35-68

  Povinelli, Daniel J ^a   Bering, Jesse M ^a   Giambrone, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410607744     Document Type: Chapter

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