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    Supports→It is more parsimonious to assume that chimpanzees can understand what others can and cannot see (mindreading) rather than assuming chimpanzees have learned a different behavioral rule for every relevant situation involving a competitor's line of gaze.

    Chimpanzees use information about what a competitor has visual access to in order to decide whether to go for a reward.

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    These different notions of simplicity are not only conceptually distinct, they are often mutually incompatible or conflicting. Nowhere has this become more evident than in the chimpanzee theory of mind debate. The last few years have witnessed a huge controversy over the experimental results in this research area. A number of studies have shown that chimpanzees can use information regarding what a competitor has visual access to in order to decide whether or not to go for a reward (Hare et al. 2

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