Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 275-286

  Melis, Alicia P ^a   Hare, Brian ^a,b   Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOLERANCE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33746603913     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.018     Document Type: Article

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