Cognitive capacities for cooking in chimpanzees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1809, 2015, Pages

  Warneken, Felix ^a   Rosati, Alexandra G ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Cooking; Future oriented cognition; Human evolution; Primate cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIMATE;

PAN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

ANIMAL; COGNITION; CONGO; COOKING; DIET; EVOLUTION; FOOD; PAN TROGLODYTES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COGNITION; CONGO; COOKING; DIET; FOOD; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 84931287969     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0229     Document Type: Article

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