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Revulsion in chimpanzees: health maintenance through avoidance of biological contaminants

2016-03-11

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Many major human infectious diseases are transmitted via bodily products such as feces, blood, semen, and saliva. Such contaminants are also known disgust elicitors among humans. From an evolutionary perspective, revulsion in humans is hypothesized to have evolved to protect us from the risk of contracting disease; sensu the Parasite Avoidance Theory of Disgust. To investigate whether chimpanzees are sensitive to...

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Literature Corpus work: 1ff64954-cb9d-5721-b147-c854d74cbd79
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1851v1

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