Primate communication and human language: Continuities and discontinuities

Mind the Gap: Tracing the Origins of Human Universals

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 283-298

  Cheney, Dorothy L ^a   Seyfarth, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02725-3_13     Document Type: Chapter

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