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BIZARRE chimpanzees do not represent “the chimpanzee”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2010

David A. Leavens ,
Kim A. Bard  and
William D. Hopkins
David A. Leavens
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, East Sussex BN1 9QH, United [email protected]://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/profile114996.html
Kim A. Bard
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Centre for the Study of Emotion, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO1 2DY, United [email protected]://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/psychology/staff/title,50477,en.html
William D. Hopkins
Affiliation:
Division of Psychobiology, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, and Department of Psychology, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA [email protected]://userwww.service.emory.edu/~whopkin/
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Abstract

Henrich et al. convincingly caution against the overgeneralization of findings from particular human populations, but fail to apply their own compelling reasoning to our nearest living relatives, the great apes. Here we argue that rearing history is every bit as important for understanding cognition in other species as it is in humans.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 100 - 101
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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