If at first you don't succeed... Studies of ontogeny shed light on the cognitive demands of habitual tool use.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on October 07, 2013

Authors

E J M Meulman1, A M Seed, J Mann

Author Affiliations

1: Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zürich, , 8057 Zürich, Switzerland.

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