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. 2012 Aug;35(4):244.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1100197X. Epub 2012 Jun 15.

Motor planning in primates

Daniel J Weiss  1 , Kate M Chapman, Jason D Wark, David A Rosenbaum
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Motor planning in primates

Daniel J Weiss et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

Vaesen asks whether goal maintenance and planning ahead are critical for innovative tool use. We suggest that these aptitudes may have an evolutionary foundation in motor planning abilities that span all primate species. Anticipatory effects evidenced in the reaching behaviors of lemurs, tamarins, and rhesus monkeys similarly bear on the evolutionary origins of foresight as it pertains to tool use.

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