Wild monkeys flake stone tools

Nature

Volumn 539, Issue 7627, 2016, Pages 85-88

  Proffitt, Tomos ^a   Luncz, Lydia V ^a   Falótico, Tiago ^b   Ottoni, Eduardo B ^b   De La Torre, Ignacio ^c   Haslam, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COGNITION; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; PRIMATE; STONE AGE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CEBUS; COGNITION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; PAN PANISCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPAJUS; STONE AGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; BRAZIL; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECREATIONAL PARK; TOOL USE; WILD ANIMAL;

BRAZIL;

CEBUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRAZIL; CEBUS; HUMANS; PALEONTOLOGY; PARKS, RECREATIONAL; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84994627218     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20112     Document Type: Article

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