Imaginary Play in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Teaching Sign Language to a Chimpanzee

Rod Gardner, Beatrice T. Gardner · Science · 1969 · 1.6K citations

Genetics, Fruitfly Drosophila, Genomics +19

The Signs of Language

William C. Stokoe, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi · Language · 1980 · 1.3K citations

Psycholinguistics, Morphology (Linguistics), Language Learning +17

Tactical deception in primates

Andrew Whiten, Richard W. Byrne · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1988 · 862 citations

Primatology, Abstract Tactical Deception, Social Psychology +16

Does play matter? Functional and evolutionary aspects of animal and human play

Peter K. Smith · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1982 · 420 citations

Evolutionary Game Theory, Adaptive Significance, Social Sciences +16

COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION*

Rod Gardner, Beatrice T. Gardner · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 1978 · 298 citations

Second Language Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Language Development +6