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

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Title: Cognitive mechanisms matter – but they do not explain the absence of teaching in chimpanzees
Contributor: Moore, Richard; Tennie, Claudio
imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2015
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Language: English
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x14000521
ISSN: 0140-525X; 1469-1825
Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience ; Physiology ; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>

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