Introduction: Intentional communication in nonhuman primates

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 1-15

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Call, Josep ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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