Chimpanzee vocal signaling points to a multimodal origin of human language.

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Published in PLoS One on April 20, 2011

Authors

Jared P Taglialatela1, Jamie L Russell, Jennifer A Schaeffer, William D Hopkins

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biology and Physics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, United States of America. jtaglial@kennesaw.edu

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