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Recent Advances in the Study of Tool-Use by Nonhuman Primates

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This paper reports on a symposium on “Tool-Use by Nonhuman Primates”, organized by the author, and held in Florence on 5 July 1980. It was one of the satellite symposia commissioned by B. Chiarelli, as part of the VIIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society. It was hosted by the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria. Seven papers were presented, and these will be published together in 1982, as a special issue of the Journal of Human Evolution.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland

    W. C. McGrew

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  1. Istituto di Antropologia dell’Universita, Via del Proconsolo, 12, 50122, Florence, Italy

    A. B. Chiarelli  & R. S. Corruccini  & 

  2. Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA

    R. S. Corruccini

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McGrew, W.C. (1982). Recent Advances in the Study of Tool-Use by Nonhuman Primates. In: Chiarelli, A.B., Corruccini, R.S. (eds) Advanced Views in Primate Biology. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68300-8_17

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