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Book Review: What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing. By Daniel J. Povinelli and Timothy J. Eddy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996, vi + 191 pp., $14.00 (paperback)

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Swartz, K.B. Book Review: What Young Chimpanzees Know About Seeing. By Daniel J. Povinelli and Timothy J. Eddy. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996, vi + 191 pp., $14.00 (paperback). International Journal of Primatology 19, 379–382 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020396002741

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