Orangutan Instrumental Gesture-Calls: Reconciling Acoustic and Gestural Speech Evolution Models

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 415-418

  Lameira, Adriano R ^a   Hardus, Madeleine E ^b   Wich, Serge A ^c,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (PanEco YEL)   (Indonesia)

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EID: 84865531795     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9151-6     Document Type: Article

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