Playing for keeps: Evolutionary relationships between social play and the cerebellum in nonhuman primates

Human Nature

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-21

  Lewis, Kerrie P ^a,b   Barton, Robert A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Comparative method; Independent contrasts; Primates; Social play

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442717664     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-004-1001-0     Document Type: Article

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