Behavioral development: timing is everything.
A new study has found that bonobos take longer to reach adult levels of two behaviors than do chimpanzees, providing empirical support for the 'paedomorphism' hypothesis among our closest relatives.
Brosnan
Sarah F
SF
Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience & Language Research Center, Georgia State University, PO Box 5010, Atlanta, GA 30302-5010, USA. sbrosnan@gsu.edu <sbrosnan@gsu.edu>
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