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25 - A Nation at War with Itself

Defending a Community of the Mind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2020

Kevin D. Hunt
Kevin D. Hunt
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Indiana University, Bloomington
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We probably understand chimpanzees best of all the apes, and possibly best of all primates. Six wild studies have gone on for 55 years or more (McGrew, 2016), and three times that many have gone on for decades.

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Chimpanzee
Lessons from our Sister Species
 , pp. 437 - 448
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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