Language evolution: What do chimpanzees have to say?

Current Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2005, Pages

  Arcadi, Adam Clark ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; EVOLUTION; LANGUAGE; PAN TROGLODYTES; SEMANTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 27644599493     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.020     Document Type: Short Survey

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