Cheney, Dorothy L.
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Name (Latin)
Cheney, Dorothy L.
Date of birth
1950-08-24
Date of death
2018-11-09
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Animal communication
Animal societies
Biology
Education, Higher
Primates--Behavior
Primates--Psychology
Occupation
Primatologists
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 15, 2018(in obituary published Nov. 14: Dorothy L. Cheney; b. Dorothy Leavitt Cheney, Aug. 24, 1950, Boston; d. Friday [Nov. 9, 2018], Devon, Pa., aged 68; her careful research into how primates live and communicate revealed the surprising complexity of their thought processes and social structures)
- The social origins of language, 2018:dust jacket (Dorothy L. Cheney is professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania)
- Her How monkeys see the world, c1990:CIP t.p. (Dorothy L. Cheney) pub. info. (Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania)
Wikipedia description:
Dorothy Leavitt Cheney (August 24, 1950 – November 9, 2018) was an American scientist who studied the social behavior, communication, and cognition of wild primates in their natural habitat. She was professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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