Our chimpanzee mind

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 60-63

  Hauser, Marc ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DNA; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ALL-MENTAL FUNCTIONS; ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY; CHIMPANZEE;

BIODIVERSITY;

NEUROLOGY;

CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MALE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 24344462193     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03917     Document Type: Review

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