Culture prefigures cognition in Pan/Homo bonobos

Theoria-Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-328

  Savage Rumbaugh, Sue ^a   Fields, William M ^a   Segerdahl, Par ^b   Rumbaugh, Duane ^a  

^a Great Ape Trust of Iowa   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Culture; Ethnography; Imitation; Language; Primate cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248691711     PISSN: 04954548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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