A different approach to human evolution—A review of “Baboon metaphysics: the evolution of a social mind” Cheney
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described in Baboon Metaphysics. This allows readers unfamiliar with primatology or with field work methods to understand how these studies can be done and draw their own conclusions about the interpretation of the data. Primatology is practiced both in the field and in captive settings, with the former typically involving primarily observational work and the latter primarily experiments. While Cheney and Seyfarth do field work, their work has a 221 Book reviews / Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (2008) 219–222
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