Individual differences in cooperative communicative skills are more similar between dogs and humans than chimpanzees
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a School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A. b Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany c Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. d Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A. e Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
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