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DISCUSSION PAPER: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION: WHAT CAN PRIMATES TELL US?*

1976; Wiley; Volume: 280; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb25510.x

1749-6632

Nancy M. Tanner, Adrienne L. Zihlman,

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 280, Issue 1 p. 467-480 DISCUSSION PAPER: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION: WHAT CAN PRIMATES TELL US?* Nancy Tanner, Nancy Tanner Merrill College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064Search for more papers by this authorAdrienne Zihlman, Adrienne Zihlman Oakes College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064Search for more papers by this author Nancy Tanner, Nancy Tanner Merrill College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064Search for more papers by this authorAdrienne Zihlman, Adrienne Zihlman Oakes College University of California, Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California 95064Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1976 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb25510.xCitations: 2 * The Ford Foundation (grant no. 739-003-200 to N.T.), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (grants to A.Z.) and the Faculty Research Committee, University of California, Santa Cruz (N.T. and A.Z.) partly supported research from which these ideas developed. 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