Social Learning and the Transmission of Culture in Monkeys, Apes and Ancestral Humans
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Folia Primatol 2014;85:42–75 DOI: 10.1159/000357512 4th Iberian Primatological Congress Girona, Spain, October 2–5, 2013 Editors: Miquel Llorente, Olga Feliu, Girona , Fernando Peláez , Ana Morcillo , Madrid, Spain; Catarina Casanova , Lisboa, Portugal
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