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Dorothy L. Cheney studied the social behaviour, communication, and cognition of monkeys. Her goal was to uncover the selective forces that have shaped the evolution of the human mind.
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How Monkeys See the World, Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Baboon Metaphysics, Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
The Social Origins of Language, Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney, Princeton University Press, 2018.
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Robert Seyfarth received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1970 and his PhD from Cambridge University in 1977. At Cambridge, he studied with Professor R A Hinde, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Zoology. From 1977 through 1981, he carried out post-doctoral research with Professor Peter Marler at Rockefeller University in New York. He retired in 2016 as a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Seyfarth has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2020, the Animal Behavior Society gave him the Distinguished Animal Behaviorist Award for a lifetime contribution to the study of animal behavior.
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Seyfarth, R. Dorothy Leavitt Cheney. Reson 25, 1075–1082 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1024-9
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