Insights into human evolution from 60 years of research on chimpanzees at Gombe
Sixty years of research on chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania have revealed many similarities with human behaviour, including hunting, tool use and coalitionary killing. The close phylogenetic relationship between chimpanzees and humans suggests that these traits were pre...
Main Author: | Michael Lawrence Wilson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021-01-01
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Series: | Evolutionary Human Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2513843X21000025/type/journal_article |
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