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Peer reviewedTomasello, Michael; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Compared the abilities of 3 mother-reared and 3 human-raised (enculturated) chimpanzees and 16 human toddlers to imitatively learn novel actions on objects. Found that mother-reared chimpanzees were poorer imitators than both enculturated chimpanzees and human children, who did not differ from one another in imitative learning. On time delay…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Observational Learning, Primates, Primatology
