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Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology

research centre, Florida, United States
Also known as: Yale Laboratories of Primate Biology
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  • Robert M. Yerkes

    …of behaviour, it was renamed Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology after his resignation as director in 1941. Chimpanzees (1943), his other major work, was also his last. He retired from his teaching post at Yale in 1944.

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    …of behaviour, it was renamed Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology after his resignation as director in 1941. Chimpanzees (1943), his other major work, was also his last. He retired from his teaching post at Yale in 1944.

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