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Chimpanzees are not proto-hominins and early human mothers may not have foraged alone
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2005
Abstract:
Modeling the evolution of human behavior, including language, is a complex but important undertaking. The over-reliance on chimpanzees as models to assess basal hominin patterns and the implicit assumption that hominin mothers did not have significant assistance in caring for young weaken this model for the emergence of language from mother-infant vocal interactions.
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