Three ingredients for becoming a creative tool user

Tool Use in Animals Cognition and Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-20

  Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84924102485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511894800.002     Document Type: Chapter

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