Chimpanzees are not proto-hominins and early human mothers may not have foraged alone

Agustín Fuentes

doi:10.1017/s0140525x04330116

Chimpanzees are not proto-hominins and early human mothers may not have foraged alone

Agustín Fuentes

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	513
Number of pages	1
Journal	Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x04330116
State	Published - Aug 2004
Externally published	Yes

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Physiology
Behavioral Neuroscience

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Chimpanzees are not proto-hominins and early human mothers may not have foraged alone

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