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ape cognition  

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  • Biological anthropologists use the comparative perspective in their efforts to reconstruct human evolutionary history. As our closest living relatives, primates are often used to frame comparisons and to test hypotheses about various human features. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Ape Cognition]

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