Incipient tradition in wild chimpanzees

Andrew Whiten ()
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Andrew Whiten: Andrew Whiten is at the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JP, UK.

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7521, 178-179

Abstract: The adoption of a new form of tool use has been observed to spread along social-network pathways in a chimpanzee community. The finding offers the first direct evidence of cultural diffusion in these animals in the wild.

Date: 2014
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