Female Chimps Play Dollies with Sticks, Findings Show
Sunday Gazette-Mail › December 27, 2010
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LOS ANGELES - Young female chimps carry sticks as a form of "play- mothering," much in the same way girls cradle their dolls, scientists said Monday.
The findings, published online in the journal Current Biology, imply that gender roles might be more biologically rooted than some people think, the authors said - and that might hold for human beings, too.See the full content of this document
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Female Chimps Play Dollies with Sticks, Findings Show
Lead author Sonya Kahlenberg, a biological anthropologist at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, looked at incidences of...
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