Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game.

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Published in Science on October 05, 2007

Authors

Keith Jensen1, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello

Author Affiliations

1: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany. jensen@eva.mpg.de

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