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Chimpanzees know what others know, but not what they believe
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kaminski, J., Call, J., & Tomasello, M.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 109
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 224-234
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2151744304
- Cited by
- 414
- References
- 44
- FWCI
- 25.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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