Chimpanzee choice and prosociality (Reply)

Joan B. Silk (), Sarah F. Brosnan, Jennifer Vonk, Joseph Henrich, Daniel J. Povinelli, Amanda S. Richardson, Susan P. Lambeth, Jenny Mascaro and Steven J. Shapiro
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Joan B. Silk: University of California
Sarah F. Brosnan: Emory University
Jennifer Vonk: University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast
Joseph Henrich: Emory University
Daniel J. Povinelli: Cognitive Evolution Group, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Amanda S. Richardson: Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Susan P. Lambeth: Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Jenny Mascaro: Emory University
Steven J. Shapiro: Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7085, E6-E6

Abstract: Abstract Beninger and Quinsey 1 argue that we provide no evidence that chimpanzees show other-regarding preferences in the two-option test situation under conditions in which they would be expected to show such a preference. This criticism is misdirected, because our aim was not to determine whether chimpanzees would demonstrate prosocial preference under any circumstances. Instead, it was to determine whether chimpanzees show pro-social preferences in situations similar to those in which these occur routinely in humans.

Date: 2006
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