How to build a scrub-jay that reads minds

Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary and Developmental Views

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-97

  Emery, Nathan J ^a   Clayton, Nicola S ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-75179-3_4     Document Type: Chapter

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