Browsing by Subject "Chimpanzee"
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Social Decision-Making in Bonobos and Chimpanzees
(2016)Humans are natural politicians. We obsessively collect social information that is both observable (e.g., about third-party relationships) and unobservable (e.g., about others’ psychological states), and we strategically ... -
The Pan social brain: An evolutionary history of neurochemical receptor genes and their potential impact on sociocognitive differences.
(Journal of human evolution, 2021-02-09)Humans have unique cognitive capacities that, compared with apes, are not only simply expressed as a higher level of general intelligence, but also as a quantitative difference in sociocognitive skills. Humans' closest living ... -
The Social and Reproductive Behavior of Male Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania
(2017)This dissertation presents three studies of the social and reproductive behavior and social structure of male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. I. In many species of non-human ... -
What Makes Our Minds Human? Comparative Phylogenetic Perspectives on the Evolution of Cognition
(2012)What makes our minds human? How did they evolve to be this way? This dissertation presents data from two complementary lines of research driven by these orienting questions. The first of these explores the `what' of human ...
