Teaching can teach us a lot

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Thornton, Alex ^a   McAuliffe, Katherine ^b  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive mechanism; Cooperation; Culture; Evolution; Functional definition; Social learning; Teaching

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; TEACHING;

EID: 84858747579     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.01.029     Document Type: Article

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