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Is there a human fear paradox? A more thorough use of comparative data to test the fearful ape hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2023

Judith M. Burkart Open the ORCID record for Judith M. Burkart [Opens in a new window]  and
F. de Oliveira Terceiro
Judith M. Burkart
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected], https://www.aim.uzh.ch/de/ecg.html Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution ISLE, University of Zurich, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland
F. de Oliveira Terceiro
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland [email protected], https://www.aim.uzh.ch/de/ecg.html Department of Physiology and Behaviour, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, 59010 Natal, Brazil [email protected]
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Abstract

Grossmann's intriguing proposal can benefit from a more thorough integration of the primate literature, particularly on neophobia. Moreover, it directly leads to strong predictions in callitrichids, the only other cooperatively breeding primates beyond humans, which may indeed be met: Being more likely to signal distress than independently breeding monkeys, and responding to such signals with approach and affiliation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e57
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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