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. 2015:38:e50.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X14000521.

Cognitive mechanisms matter - but they do not explain the absence of teaching in chimpanzees

Richard Moore  1 , Claudio Tennie  2
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Cognitive mechanisms matter - but they do not explain the absence of teaching in chimpanzees

Richard Moore et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2015.

Abstract

Kline's functional categories for the evolution of teaching blur some valuable distinctions. Moreover, her account provides no answer to the question of why direct active teaching seems to be a uniquely human phenomenon.

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