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Tetsuro Matsuzawa
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Majoring Comparative Cognitive Science; Primatology. PhD from Kyoto University in 1989. Tetsuro Matsuzawa has been studying chimpanzees both in the laboratory and the wild. The laboratory work is known as the "Ai-project" in the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University since 1977: A female chimpanzee named Ai learned to use Arabic numerals to represent numbers (Matsuzawa, 1985, Nature). The fieldwork has been carried out in Bossou-Nimba, Guinea, since 1986, focusing on the tool use and the culture in the wild. Matsuzawa tries to synthesize the field and the lab work to understand the mind of chimpanzees to know the evolutionary origins of the human mind. He published the English books such as “Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior", “Cognitive Development in Chimpanzees", “The Minds of the Chimpanzees”, and “The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba".
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