Why primates? The importance of nonhuman primates for understanding human infancy

Infancy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 133-146

  Weiss, Daniel J ^a   Santos, Laurie R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 33645733338     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327078in0902_3     Document Type: Article

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