Chapter 3 The Dog as a Model for Understanding Human Social Behavior

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue , 2009, Pages 71-116

  Topál, József ^a   Miklósi, Ádám ^b   Gácsi, Márta ^b   Dóka, Antal ^b   Pongrácz, Péter ^b   Kubinyi, Eniko ^b   Virányi, Zsófia ^b   Csányi, Vilmos ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Behavioral convergence; Dog; Domestication; Evolution; Human behavior complex; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651113966     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(09)39003-8     Document Type: Review

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