Why don't apes point?

Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 506-524

  Tomasello, Michael ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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