Do chimpanzees know what others see-or only what they are looking at?

Rational Animals?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Booster hypothesis; Chimpanzees; Scoffer hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921557748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528272.003.0017     Document Type: Chapter

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