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Spontaneous innovation for future deception in a male chimpanzee.

Osvath, Mathias LU and Karvonen, Elin (2012) In PLoS ONE 7(5).
Abstract
The ability to invent means to deceive others, where the deception lies in the perceptually or contextually detached future, appears to require the coordination of sophisticated cognitive skills toward a single goal. Meanwhile innovation for a current situation has been observed in a wide range of species. Planning, on the one hand, and the social cognition required for deception on the other, have been linked to one another, both from a co-evolutionary and a neuroanatomical perspective. Innovation and deception have also been suggested to be connected in their nature of relying on novelty.
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1932-6203
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036782
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Phylogenetic reconstruction of the human skill to imagine
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English
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