The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7055, 2005, Pages 52-55

  Whiten, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CHIMPANZEE; HUMAN CULTURES; INHERITANCE SYSTEMS;

BIODIVERSITY;

GENOME; PRIMATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHIMPANZEE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INHERITANCE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; IMITATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PAN TROGLODYTES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 24344495323     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04023     Document Type: Review

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