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Books by Robert Mearns Yerkes

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Biography & Memoir

The mental life of monkeys and apes

Robert Yerkes’s study of the mental life of monkeys and apes examines animal intelligence through behavior, learning, perception, problem-solving, and social interaction. Yerkes was a major early figure in comparative psychology, and the book reflects the period’s attempt to study animal minds

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